ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,309, issued on July 29, was assigned to Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Heat sink" was invented by Yosuke Watanabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat sink including a plurality of plate-like radiating fins erected on a base plate at a predetermined erection angle Theta1 with respect to an extending direction of the base plate. The radiating fins each has: a fin base portion that extends from one end to another end in a width direction of the radiating fin; a perpendicular portion that extends from one end of the fin base portion to a fin tip portion of the radiating fin on a same plane as the fin base portion; an incli...