US Patent Issued to Henkel on July 21 for "Abrasion-resistant coatings for thermal interfaces" (California, Michigan, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,170, issued on July 21, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Abrasion-resistant coatings for thermal interfaces" was invented by Pradyumna Goli (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Justin Kolbe (Rochester, Minn.), Reid J. Chesterfield (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Paul A. Pedersen (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system having a removable electronic component employs an abrasion-resistant thermally conductive film as a thermal interface between the removable electronic component and a heat sink. The abrasion-resistant film reduces thermal impedance between the removable electronic component and the heat sin...