ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,431, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus with heat dissipation member having high cooling efficiency" was invented by Takuya Amano (Osaka, Japan), Norikazu Kaneda (Osaka, Japan), Yuuji Matsuo (Osaka, Japan) and Tatsuya Sato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The imaging apparatus includes a first object to be cooled, a second object to be cooled, and a heat dissipation member including a first connection part connected to the first object to be cooled, a second connection part connected to the second object to be cooled, and a first fin....