US Patent Issued to Ciena on Sept. 1 for "Convection cooling of a pluggable optical module in a printed circuit board envelope" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,206, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Convection cooling of a pluggable optical module in a printed circuit board envelope" was invented by Peter Ajersch (Ottawa) and Behzad Mohajer (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A convection cooling assembly for a pluggable optical module (POM), the convection cooling assembly including: a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly; and a POM cage coupled to the PCB assembly and adapted to receive a POM adjacent to the PCB assembly; where the PCB assembly defines a cutout or a recess within the POM cage and adapted to be disposed adjacent to a surface of t...