US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on July 1 for "Imaging device with heat dissipation mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,009, issued on July 1, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging device with heat dissipation mechanism" was invented by Hiroyuki Kuroki (Osaka, Japan), Hikaru Tsuchitani (Osaka, Japan), Yuuji Matsuo (Osaka, Japan) and Norikazu Kaneda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes: a heat source; a heat dissipation mechanism for dissipating heat of the heat source; and a main body to which the heat source and the heat dissipation mechanism are attached, wherein the heat dissipation mechanism is disposed on an outer peripheral portion of the main body."

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