ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,422, issued on March 31, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Heatsink with adjustable fin pitch" was invented by Susheela Narasimhan (Fremont, Calif.) and Michal L. Sabotta (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes at least one heat pipe that is adapted to be thermally coupled to an integrated circuit and has an evaporator portion and a first condenser portion, wherein the first condenser portion extends away from the evaporator portion; a first plurality of cooling fins that is attached to the first condenser portion; a first movable support that is thermally coupled to the first condense...