US Patent Issued to Ciena on Jan. 13 for "Small footprint independent heatsink attachment for a pluggable optical module" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,830, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Small footprint independent heatsink attachment for a pluggable optical module" was invented by Peter Vincent Saturley (Ottawa) and Jennifer Trac (Nepean, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heatsink assembly including a printed circuit board having a primary side and a secondary side, a pluggable optical module cage coupled to the primary side of the printed circuit board and adapted to receive a pluggable optical module on the primary side of the printed circuit board, a plurality of pins coupled to the printed circuit board and protruding from the secondary s...