ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,614, issued on March 17, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for an automatic battery heat sinking operation control mechanism" was invented by Qinghong He (Austin, Texas), John Lerma (Cedar Park, Texas) and Travis C. North (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a processor, a memory device, a PMU to provide power to the processor and memory device, and a battery operatively coupled to the PMU. The information handling system also includes a controlled battery heat sink cooling system, the battery heat sink cooling system including a heat dist...