US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Direct contact heat transfer couplings for pluggable network interface devices" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,571, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Direct contact heat transfer couplings for pluggable network interface devices" was invented by Yaniv Kazav (Hadera, Israel), Yuval Ullman (Beit Elazary, Israel), Nimr Hazin (Bane, Israel), Jamal Mousa (Haifa, Israel), Bar Noyman (Kfar HaHoresh, Israel) and Ayal Shabtay (Parod, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pluggable network interface device includes a printed circuit board ("PCB"), a housing, and a heatsink. The heatsink includes a first surface and a second surface, disposed opposite the first surface, that is maintained in direct contac...