ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,614, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Method for determining heat-sink contamination by means of artificial intelligence" was invented by Bernd Roppelt (Unterhaid, Germany) and Jens Schmenger (Forchheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining soiling of a heat sink for cooling an electronic component is disclosed. A load curve controlled by the component and a temperature curve along a heat transfer chain from the at least one component to the heat sink are continuously captured. In a training phase, a decision function is determined, which is provided for application to a portion of t...