US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Aug. 19 for "Systems and methods for controlling thermal energy between hinged portions of electronic devices" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,052, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for controlling thermal energy between hinged portions of electronic devices" was invented by Michael Nikkhoo (Saratoga, Calif.), Brian Toleno (Cupertino, Calif.), Igor Markovsky (Campbell, Calif.), Hunter Cantrell (Vancouver, Wash.) and Shobhit Verma (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system to conduct thermal energy between two hinged portions of an electric device. In examples, the method employs a thermal hinge system configured to transfer or spread thermal energy, and optionally electrica...