ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,293, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multiple chassis cooling zones" was invented by Aaron Gregory Levitan (Berkeley, Calif.), Vincent Cridlig (San Francisco), Yury Murashka (Dublin), Matthew Gawlowski (Woodland Park, Colo.) and Paulmer Soderberg (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network switch device includes cooling fans to remove heat generated by its electronic circuitry during operation. Multiple cooling zones are provided in a network switch device to enable reduced cooling fan power consumption. The switch device includes a baffle positioned between a first zo...