US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Safety and EMC compliant internal power plane heat sink capacitor" (New York, Minnesota, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,507, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Safety and EMC compliant internal power plane heat sink capacitor" was invented by John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Piyush Kashyap (Highland, N.Y.), Samuel R. Connor (Apex, N.C.), Yuanchen Hu (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and Kevin O'Connell (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for providing a safety and EMC compliant heat sink. The apparatus includes a heat sink configured to be attached to an internal power plane of a printed circuit board (PCB). The heat sink includes a plurality of fins extending outward from the heat ...