ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,564, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Lever actuated cold plate" was invented by Harvey J. Lunsman (Chippewa Falls, Wis.), Michael Scott (Chippewa Falls, Wis.) and Steven Dean (Chippewa Falls, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cooling module includes a mounting element, a force application member, a lever, and a cold plate movably coupled to the mounting element. The mounting element having engagement members, is coupled to a receptacle of an electronic device that is configured to receive a removable electronic device at the receptacle. The force application member having...