ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,120,854, issued on Oct. 15, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Hybrid liquid and air cooling in networking equipment" was invented by Daniel Rivaud (Ottawa), Peter Ajersch (Ottawa), Michael Bishop (Ottawa) and Anthony Mayenburg (Carp, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networking hardware system includes a housing; a board located in the housing and comprising a plurality of components; a liquid cooled heat exchanger; and one or more fans disposed near the liquid cooled heat exchanger and configured to provide cool airflow from the liquid cooled heat exchanger to any of the plurality of components. The housing can be subst...