US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 21 for "Cold plate placement and retraction apparatus with predefined travel pathway" (New York, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,153, issued on July 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cold plate placement and retraction apparatus with predefined travel pathway" was invented by Madhana Sunder (Meridian, Idaho), Donald W. Porter (Highland, N.Y.), Francis R. Krug Jr. (Highland, N.Y.), Milnes P. David (New Paltz, N.Y.) and Jeffrey Allen Zitz (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus that includes a plurality of linkage arms connected one to another by one of a plurality of joints, wherein the plurality of linkage arms has a first end and a second end, and the first end is adapted to allow for removable ...