Xyratex/Seagate Assigned Patent

Xyratex Technology Limited, Havant, Great Britain, has been assigned a patent (9,648,730) developed by Harvilchuck, Laurence, Brackney, PA, for a “solid state memory unit cooling apparatus.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Apparatus for thermally cooling a solid state memory unit, such as but not limited to densely packed flash memory storage devices in a data storage system. In some embodiments, a thermally conductive corrugated plate has one or more corrugations. The corrugations are adapted for positioning adjacent at least one solid state memory unit to form one or more channels for a cooling fluid to flow therethrough.“

The patent application was filed on January 30, 2015 (14/610,719).