ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,166, issued on March 31, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Thermal-control system for a security camera" was invented by Ihab A. Ali (Cupertino, Calif.), Arun Prakash Raghupathy (Pleasanton, Calif.), Mark Benjamin Kraz (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kok Yen Cheng (San Jose, Calif.) and Chi-Ming Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes a thermal-control system that is integrated into a security camera. The thermal-control system includes a combination of heatsinks and thermal interface materials with high thermal conductivities. The thermal-control system may transfer and spread e...