ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,521, issued on March 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus for cooling electronic circuitry components and photonic components" was invented by Raffaele Luca Amalfi (New Providence, N.J.), Stefano Grillanda (Springfield, N.J.) and Ryan Enright (Floral Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for cooling electronic circuitry components and photonic components. In examples of the disclosure at least one photonic component is positioned overlaying at least one electronic circuitry component. In examples of the disclosure there is also provided a spacer for spacing the at least one electron...