ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,210, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System for thermal management of a handheld computing device" was invented by Jean Marie Doglio (Round Rock, Texas), Paul Roberto Lalinde (Spring, Texas), Chen Mengwei (Taipei, Taiwan), Chun-Min He (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yongook Guack (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for thermal management of a handheld computing device, including: a docking station, including: a first air inlet; a first air outlet; a first fan; the handheld computing device that is removably coupled to the docking station, including: a primary air outlet; a secondary ai...