ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,451, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZT Group Int'l Inc. (Secaucus, N.J.).

"Boiler plates for computing systems" was invented by Ting Yu Lin (Fairfield, N.J.) and Tommy Lin (Maspeth, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boiler plate is provided. The boiler plate includes a heat spreader layer operable to transfer heat from a computing component across the heat spreader layer. The heat spreader layer extends along a plane. At least one heat pipe extends from the heat spreader layer in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane away from the computing component. The at least one heat pipe is operable to transfer the heat a...