ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,680, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Circuit board cooling configurations" was invented by Ruslan Nagimov (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The discussion relates to thermal management. One example can include a circuit board including inner, intermediate, and outer generally concentric zones and a cryogenically cooled chip located in the inner zone as well as non-cryogenic electronic components positioned in the outer zone. In this example, the intermediate zone can have a skeletonized configuration that slows thermal energy movement from the outer zone to the inn...