US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on March 18 for "Lid carveouts for processor connection and alignment" (Colorado, Wisconsin, Utah, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,892, issued on March 18, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Lid carveouts for processor connection and alignment" was invented by Jerry Anton Ahrens (Sister Bay, Wis.), William Robert Alverson (Del Valle, Texas), Amitabh Mehra (Fort Collins, Colo.), Grant Evan Ley (Eden, Utah), Anil Harwani (Austin, Texas) and Joshua Taylor Knight (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Package lids with carveouts configured for processor connection and alignment are described. Lid carveouts are configured to align and mechanically secure a cooling device to the package lid by receiving protrusions of the c...