US Patent Issued to Infinera on July 14 for "Thermal management of pluggable optical transceiver" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,247, issued on July 14, was assigned to Infinera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Thermal management of pluggable optical transceiver" was invented by Franklin Wall Jr. (Vacaville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and devices for providing heat relief to an optical transceiver device are disclosed. The optical transceiver device includes a heat transfer structure that includes a heat slug connected to a high heat generating circuit in the optical transceiver device. The heat slug has a structure that allows heat to flow anisotropically from one surface of the heat slug that contacts the heat generating circuit to a second surf...