ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,426, issued on July 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Unitary heatsink for multi-socket computing systems" was invented by William Mark Megarity (Renton, Wash.), Chetan Sanjay Agarwal (Surrey, Canada), Ali Elashri (Issaquah, Wash.), Sibi Mathew (Bothell, Wash.), Virginia Dunn (Seattle) and Darin Lee Frink (Lake Tapps, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus of a computing component system can include a heatsink. A first heat transfer device may extend outward from the heatsink to facilitate receipt of heat from a first socket zone, and a second heat transfer device may extend outward from the heatsink...