US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on April 21 for "Pump assisted capillary cooler assemblies having fluid wicking" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,503, issued on April 21, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Pump assisted capillary cooler assemblies having fluid wicking" was invented by Ercan M. Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Danny J. Lohan (Northville, Mich.) and Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein are directed to a cooler assembly. The cooler assembly includes a cold plate having a first surface and an opposite second surface, a base wick fluidly coupled to the first surface, a heat-generating device, and a fluid wicking structure. The ...