ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,231, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).
"Two-piece separable wedge clamp for thermal mechanical interface" was invented by Edward Thoman Jr. (Port Charlotte, Fla.), Richard A. Riley (Bloomingdale, N.J.) and Frank D. Phillips (Bedford, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wedge clamp assembly includes a first wedge plate including a first planar surface, and a first sawtooth surface opposite the first planar surface. The first wedge plate is configured to be fixed with respect to an electronics module. The first sawtooth surface includes two or more incli...