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I guess he was the first to come up with this radial heatsink design? http://www.google.com/patents/US20040200601 http://www.google.com/patents/US20040200601

I guess he was the first to come up with this radial heatsink design? http://www.google.com/patents/US20040200601 http://www.google.com/patents/US20040200601 Stock Intel coolers do look like this today and have for a while. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about heatsinks. It is all tower and heatpipe models today, though, e.g. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6830/cpu-air-cooler-roundup-six-coolers-from-noctua-silverstone-and-cooler-master/6 http://www.anandtech.com/show/6830/cpu-air-cooler-roundup-si... Originally popularized by the Scythe Ninja back in gosh, what, 2004 or so? It was a super effective design, main refinements over time have been more and more "slices" and direct contact heatpipes. Nobody afaik has beaten efficiency of the tower heatpipe design to date.

rasz_pl 12y ago
looks like junk patent, filed 4 years AFTER Thermaltake Golden orb http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=256 http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=256
- rgbrenner 12y ago
  did you read the patent? it says: "Priority date Aug 30, 1999" and the first sentence of the description is: "[0001] This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/386,103, filed on Aug. 30, 1999." which is: https://www.google.com/patents/US6851467 https://www.google.com/patents/US6851467 and was indeed filed on Aug 30 1999. Which is almost a year before the Thermaltake Golden Orb. Besides, he actually has his name on a number of patents: https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&hl=en&tbm=pts&q=ininventor%3A%22Gregory+T+Wyler%22&oq=ininventor%3A%22Gregory+T+Wyler%22 https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&hl=en&tbm=pts&q=ininv...