ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,793, issued on July 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus" was invented by Haruhisa Ueda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes an exterior cover, a circuit board, a first heat generating element, a metal plate, a duct, an air inlet, and an air outlet. Fins, respectively formed on the exterior cover and the metal plate face each other in the duct in a direction orthogonal to the circuit board, have tops that overlap each other in the orthogonal direction, as viewed from a direction parallel to a direction in which the circuit board extends. A distance between the exter...