ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,240, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Temperature-based heat sink airflow channel adjustment system" was invented by Per Henrik Fremrot (Novato, Calif.), Colin Montgomery (Mountain View, Calif.) and Maunish Shah (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networking module cooling system includes a networking module connected to a networking device, and a temperature-based heat sink airflow channel adjustment system coupled to the networking module. The temperature-based heat sink airflow channel adjustment system includes a heat sink base, fixed heat sink fin subsystem(s) extending from t...