ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,033, issued on April 8, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Apparatus comprising a heat sink for a pluggable module" was invented by Reinhold Seitz (Hilpoltstein, Germany) and Erwin Ruttmann (Petersaurach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including: a base plate; a guide rail being disposed on the base plate; a sliding bar with a first side being disposed on the guide rail, wherein the sliding rail includes a wedge on a second side of the sliding bar opposite the first side; and a heat sink, wherein the base plate and the heat sink form a slot for insertion of a pluggable module at a ...