ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,711, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to cool hardware" was invented by Shreekanth Murthy Muthigi (Bangalore, India), Casey Winkel (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Chetan Maheshwari (Jamshedpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed to cool hardware. An example apparatus to cool a hardware component includes a first substrate; a second substrate couplable to a chassis, the second substrate formed of a metal; and a plurality of malleable fins coupled between the first and second substrates, the malleable fins formed of a thermally conductive material."...