US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Oct. 27 for "Adaptive oscillating heat pipe" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,856, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Adaptive oscillating heat pipe" was invented by Abbas A. Alahyari (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Miad Yazdani (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptable oscillating heat pipe system comprises an oscillating closed loop heat pipe (OHP) configured for movement of a fluid in an internal passage in the closed loop to transfer heat from a first portion of the closed loop to a second portion and a shape memory alloy component arranged at a portion of the internal passage. The shape memory alloy component is configured to oscillate between a first shape...