ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,195, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pattern-enabled aluminum nitride thermal test vehicle for datacenter cooling systems" was invented by Ali Heydari (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for testing in a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, an aluminum nitride (Al-N) heat spreader includes, on one side, a patterned heat trace having a first concentration pattern that is dense relative to a second concentration pattern of a patterned heat trace, which all form part of a thermal test vehicle (TTV) to replicate heat generation by a computing device i...