ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,078, issued on June 24, was assigned to Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC (Miami).

"System and method for maintaining efficiency of a heat sink" was invented by Alexander I Poltorak (Monsey, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heatsink comprising a heat exchange device having a plurality of heat exchange elements each having a surface boundary with respect to a heat transfer fluid, having successive elements or regions having varying size scales. According to one embodiment, an accumulation of dust or particles on a surface of the heatsink is reduced by a removal mechanism. The mechanism can be thermal pyrolysis, vibration, blowing...