ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,900, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Laird Technologies (Shenzhen) Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Electrically and thermally conductive gaskets" was invented by Yi-Shen Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Min-Wei Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Tsang-I Tsai (Xinbei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically and thermally conductive gasket includes a resilient core including a plurality of sides, a heat spreader disposed along at least two sides of the plurality of sides of the resilient core, and an electrically conductive layer disposed along and/or covering at least a portion of the heat spreader, such that the portion of the heat spread...