US Patent Issued on Aug. 19 for "Heat removal systems and methods with automated fire suppression for data centers" (California, Virgin Islands Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,138, issued on Aug. 19.

"Heat removal systems and methods with automated fire suppression for data centers" was invented by Dale LeFebvre (Thomas, Virgin Islands) and Kenneth Choi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an open-loop heat removal system for a building such as a data center or a home, cool air is supplied to the building by a chilling unit and hot air is expelled from the building without recycling, recirculating, or re-cooling the hot air. For fire suppression, the system receives temperature reading(s) from temperature sensor(s) and determines whether any temperature reading reaches or exceeds a temper...