ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,713, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AMD Design LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Moat heatsink for VRs in high power AI servers" was invented by Sruti Chigullapalli (Secaucus, N.J.), Sunilkumar Pinnu (Secaucus, N.J.), Wojciech Marcin Serafin (Secaucus, N.J.) and Cong Yao (Secaucus, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for cooling a first heat source surrounded by a plurality of second heat sources in which a second heat sink for the plurality of heat sources is attached to a first heat sink connected to the first heat source. The apparatus avoids requiring dedicated mounts on the device for the second heat sink by ...