ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,143, issued on July 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Lift-up foot mechanism for hideaway cooling fins" was invented by Yi-Chang Yeh (Taipei City, Taiwan), Hao-Chieh Tseng (Keelung City, Taiwan), Chun-Yi Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), I-Huei Huang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Po-Fei Tsai (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Ming-Hao Hsieh (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chia-Chen Lin (Sanchong District, Taiwan), Jung-Jung Wang (Changhua County, Taiwan) and Jer-Yo Lee (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a top portion, a heatsink, a base portion, and a foot portion. The to...