US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on June 3 for "Actuating heatsink for pluggable modules" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,129, issued on June 3, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Actuating heatsink for pluggable modules" was invented by Jimmy Chun-Chuen Leung (Fremont, Calif.) and John Ferullo (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a heatsink assembly may include a heatsink that transfers heat from a pluggable module plugged into a frame, a clip coupling the heatsink to the frame and biasing the heatsink toward the pluggable module when the pluggable module is plugged into the frame, and an actuator plate that engages with the pluggable module as the pluggable module is plugged into the frame an...