ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,979, issued on March 25, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Thermal management of planar transformer windings and cores" was invented by Hebri Vijayendra Nayak (Rockford, Ill.) and Scott C. Wohlfarth (Edgerton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-card assembly includes: a first printed wiring board; a second printed wiring board; a first stiffener secured to the first printed wiring board, the first stiffener interposed between the first printed wiring board and the second printed wiring board; a second stiffener secured to the second printed wiring board, the second stiffener interposed between the ...