ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,694, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Surface-mounted heat sink and power module using same" was invented by Mingjuan Zhang (Shanghai), Jun Yang (Shanghai) and Kai Dong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a surface-mounted heat sink and a power module using the same. The power module includes a circuit board, a magnetic element and at least one power device. The magnetic element is disposed at an upper side of the circuit board, the at least one power device is disposed on a surface of the circuit board and located between the magnetic element...