ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,124, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Electronic apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Mito (Chiba, Japan) and Yasuhiro Ootori (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus (1) includes a cooling fan (5) configured to generate an airflow that cools a part mounted on a circuit board (50), a flow passage wall (34) defining a flow passage of the airflow fed from the cooling fan (5), and a dust collecting chamber Ds configured to capture dust in the airflow and store the captured dust, the dust collecting chamber Ds being provided to the flow passage wall (34). Accordin...