ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,988, issued on April 1, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Thermal control optimization based on monitoring/control mechanism" was invented by Yijun Lu (Hangzhou, China), Jun Song (Tacoma, Wash.) and Youquan Feng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for improving thermal control, including collecting data of a plurality of systems, each of the plurality of systems including at least one first cooling element and at least one first heat-generating element; conducting a first simulation using a simulation model based on the collected data to generate a first...