ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,269, issued on July 22, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Module-to-module mechanical, electrical, and airflow connections in modular data centers" was invented by Tyler Baxter Duncan (Austin, Texas), Anthony Middleton (Cedar Park, Texas) and Jeffery Todd Sayles (San Marcos, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular data center includes: a modular information technology component (MITC), in which the MITC includes a plurality of information handling systems (IHSs), a utility control component (UCC), and a first connection interface, in which the first connection interface includes a first set of mechanical a...