US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Sept. 1 for "Magnetically coupled conductive thermal interface" (New Mexico Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,810, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Kirtland AFB, N.M.).

"Magnetically coupled conductive thermal interface" was invented by Jonathan Allison (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Magnetically Coupled Conductive Thermal Interface (MCCTI) for transferring heat from a client to a servicer, the MCCTI providing a thermal interface using an array of electropermanent magnets (EPMs) interfacing with a ferrous target (FT) to create sufficient interfacial pressure to provide a low interfacial thermal resistance that permits heat transfer across the in...