US Patent Issued to The Texas &AM University System, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on March 17 for "Heatsink with slits to reduce eddy current losses" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,452, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Texas &AM University System (College Station, Texas) and Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Heatsink with slits to reduce eddy current losses" was invented by Dion S. Antao (College Station, Texas), Shiyu Zhang (Bryan, Texas), Dorsa Talebi (College Station, Texas), Matthew C. Gardner (Dallas) and Sri Vignesh Sankarraman (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heatsink for an electric motor, the heatsink comprising a heat spreader configured to be placed in proximity to a winding of the electric motor, a channel formed through the heat spreader and comprisi...