ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,497, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Duct structures for computing devices" was invented by Fu-Yi Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yu-Shi Wang (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an air duct structure to receive a processing component. The air duct structure includes an air inlet opening, an air outlet opening, a plurality of side walls, and a support surface. The air inlet opening is in direct fluid communication with an air inlet of the computer chassis. The air outlet opening is in direct fluid communication with an air inlet of...