US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA on Sept. 1 for "Passive thermally-switched heat transfer system" (Alabama Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,122, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Passive thermally-switched heat transfer system" was invented by Jarret Carl Bone (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat transfer system includes a heat-conducting frame having a base in thermal engagement with a heat source and two legs extending from the base. A wax motor in thermal engagement with one of the frame's legs has a piston that moves towards the frame's second leg when the heat source is heated to a temperature threshold. A thermal conductor's first end is disposed between the piston ...