US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 25 for "Heat sinks with beyond-board fins" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,514, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Heat sinks with beyond-board fins" was invented by Shurong Tian (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), Todd Edward Takken (Brewster, N.Y.) and Joshua M. Rubin (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a cabinet; an air-mover attached to the cabinet; a circuit board mounted in the cabinet; and an air-cooled heat sink attached in thermal contact with a heat-generating component on the circuit board. The heat sink includes a heat sink base; primary heat removal fins protruding from the heat sink base in a direction away from the circu...