US Patent Issued to Raytheon on July 28 for "Passive, porous, phase-change cold plate" (Connecticut, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,424, issued on July 28, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Passive, porous, phase-change cold plate" was invented by James D. Saraidaridis (Hartford, Conn.), Malcolm P. MacDonald (Bloomfield, Conn.), Robert M. Darling (South Windsor, Conn.), Craig H. McCordic (Medfield, Mass.) and James S. Wilson (Hurst, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cold plate is disclosed for cooling electronics within a missile. The cold plate includes a housing enclosing a compartment. An outlet manifold is inside the compartment. A wick is inside the compartment and is adjacent to the outlet manifold. A liquid inlet is fluidically connected...