US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Sept. 8 for "Movable heat pipe heat sink device configured to move into and out of contact with an apparatus" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,917, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Movable heat pipe heat sink device configured to move into and out of contact with an apparatus" was invented by Daniel James McMillan (Edmonds, Wash.), Elizaveta Leonardovna Manevich (Auburn, Wash.), Austin Brady Ball (Tukwila, Wash.) and Silas Lawton Studley (Lake Forest Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling assembly to transfer heat away from an apparatus. The cooling assembly includes a heat sink and heat pipes that are connected to and that extend outward from the heat sink. The heat pipes include a first section that extends outward fro...