Amazon Assigned Patent

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV, has been assigned a patent (8,553,357) developed by James Christopher Sorenson III, Seattle, Colin L. Lazier, Seattle, and Kestutis Patiejunas, Sammamish, WA, for “cooling of HDD drives with separate mechanical module and drive control module.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage system includes one or more hard disk drive systems and an air moving device. The hard disk drive systems may include one or more drive mechanical modules that store data and a drive control module electrically coupled to the drive mechanical modules. The drive control modules may control mechanical operations in the drive mechanical modules. The drive control module includes a circuit board assembly and heat producing components coupled to the circuit board assembly. Air passages on each side of the printed circuit board assembly allow a stream of air to flow across heat producing components on at least one side of the printed circuit board assembly.”

The patent application was filed on March 26, 2012 (13/430,298).