ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,358, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NLIGHT INC. (Camas, Wash.).

"Corrosion resistant heatsink method, system, and apparatus" was invented by Mark J Defranza (Camas, Wash.) and Eric Martin (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat source package, comprising a housing having a metal base portion with one or more channels formed therein, the one or more channels having an inner surface, a coating of an anti-corrosive material adhered to a portion of the inner surface of the one or more channels wherein the anti-corrosive material is selected to have a thermal conductivity within a threshold range such that the coating ch...