US Patent Issued to Harmonic on March 3 for "Cooling of pluggable devices in device ports using thermal conductive pedestals" (Canadian, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,606, issued on March 3, was assigned to Harmonic Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cooling of pluggable devices in device ports using thermal conductive pedestals" was invented by Adi Bonen (North York, Canada) and Eran Schwartz (Kiryat Bialik, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved cooling in one or more device ports of an article of manufacture. The device ports are affixed in position by a cage disposed within the article of manufacture. One or more single-piece thermal conductive pedestals have a portion in thermal contact with each device port. The one or more single-piece thermal conductive pedestals are formed from the same ph...