ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,911, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Printed circuit board (PCB) cooling" was invented by Yongduk Lee (Vernon, Conn.), Parag M. Kshirsagar (South Windsor, Conn.) and Ankit Gupta (Willimantic, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board (PCB) assembly includes a first PCB including at least one heat generating component. A second PCB is mounted to the first PCB. The second PCB defines a cooling path therein extending in a coolant flow direction from an inlet end of the cooling path to an outlet end of the cooling path. A plurality of power pillars extend from the first P...