ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,164, issued on July 21, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Universal housing for pluggable network interface devices" was invented by Aziz Mazbar (Nof HaGalil, Israel), Nimr Hazin (Bane, Israel), Andrey Ger (Shlomi, Israel), Jamal Mousa (Haifa, Israel) and Bar Noyman (Kfar HaHoresh, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pluggable network interface device includes a printed circuit board ("PCB") and a housing configured to receive a heat transfer plate selected from a set of swappable heat transfer plates. An upper surface of the housing includes a set of modular plate receiving features. When in an assem...