ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,970, issued on April 1, was assigned to ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Thermal dissipation holder" was invented by Jhih-Wei Rao (Taipei, Taiwan), Zih-Siang Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Hung-Chieh Wu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Liang-Jen Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal dissipation holder for a handheld electronic device is provided. The thermal dissipation holder includes a main structure, a movable element, an elastic element, and a locker. The main structure has a front surface and a rear surface. The movable element is movably connected to the main structure along a first direction and has a clamp portion...