US Patent Issued to Intel on April 7 for "Locking tensioner cooling assembly for pluggable electronic component" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,692, issued on April 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Locking tensioner cooling assembly for pluggable electronic component" was invented by Prabhakar Subrahmanyam (San Jose, Calif.) and Mark E. Sprenger (Tigard, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a cooling assembly. The cooling assembly includes a cooling mass; a first heat spreader; a second heat spreader; a spring element; and, hinge components to form a hinge that the first and second heat spreaders rotate about. The spring element to apply a force to the first and second heat spreaders that causes the first...