US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 3 for "Corrosion preventive heatsink for network device" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,291, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Corrosion preventive heatsink for network device" was invented by Mehmet Onder Cap (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Manigandan Boopalan (Bangalore, India), Joel Richard Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.), Sandeep Mehdiratta (Rajouri Garden, India), Manjunatha Reddy Shivashankara (Bagepalli, India) and Damaruganath Pinjala (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a chassis base, a printed circuit board mounted on the chassis base, a heatsink positioned over the printed circuit board to prevent corrosion of components on th...