ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,497, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Modular cold plate for electronic control module" was invented by Paul Karayacoubian (Cupertino, Calif.), Jonathan Michael Bonte (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Juan Aguayo (Dallas) and Rob Hibbs (Whitby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments for a control module cooling system. For example, the control module is provided with a chassis and a circuit board assembly that is mounted to the chassis and includes electronics that generate heat during operation. A cold plate is mounted to the chassis and adjacent to the circ...