US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 16 for "Load plate with feedthrough" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,615, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Load plate with feedthrough" was invented by Norbert Schlepple (Macungie, Pa.), Vipulkumar K. Patel (Breinigsville, Pa.), Aparna R. Prasad (San Jose, Calif.) and Paul Ton (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a substrate, an integrated circuit positioned on the substrate, and a load plate positioned on the integrated circuit such that the load plate is arranged to absorb heat from the integrated circuit. The load plate includes a body and an extender. The body includes an upper surface and a bottom surface. The bottom s...