US Patent Issued to Google on May 27 for "Integrated circuit with a ring-shaped hot spot area and multidirectional cooling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,783, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit with a ring-shaped hot spot area and multidirectional cooling" was invented by Madhusudan Krishnan Iyengar (Foster City, Calif.), Norman Paul Jouppi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jorge Padilla (Union City, Calif.) and Christopher Gregory Malone (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including an integrated circuit (IC) with a ring-shaped hot spot area. In one aspect, an IC includes a first area along an outside perimeter of a surface of the IC. The first area defines a first inner perimeter. The IC inc...