ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,030, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Load distributing frame for heat sink applications" was invented by Mitchell O'Leary (Ottawa), Bonnie L. Mack (Carp, Canada) and Trevor Meunier (Kemptville, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sprung frame assembly that can accommodate varying tolerance device heights while still exerting sufficient pressure/force required to a heatsink to contact and cool a bare die device, or other device of the like. Adapted for space constrained modules where placement of mounting holes is limited, and module density is high. Sprung frames are secured to mounting points at a...