ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,130, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Sato (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Amano (Osaka, Japan), Yuuji Matsuo (Osaka, Japan), Norikazu Kaneda (Osaka, Japan) and Shunsuke Itaya (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes an object to be cooled, a heat dissipation member, a first heat conductive sheet including a first heat absorbing part that absorbs heat from the object to be cooled and a first heat dissipating part that dissipates heat to the heat dissipation member, a second heat conductive sheet i...