ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,683, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to ALPHA NETWORKS INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Thermal module" was invented by Tzu-Chih Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal module for being disposed in an electronic device comprises a driving device and at least one thermal device. The driving device includes a driving member and a driven member which are connected together, wherein the driving member is adapted to drive the driven member to operate. The at least one thermal device includes a fan, wherein two opposite ends of the fan respectively have a mating portion and a connecting portion. The mating portion is adapted ...