ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,208, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Modular liquid cooling architecture for liquid cooling" was invented by Jerry Chiu (Pacifica, Calif.) and Madhusudan K. Iyengar (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing and cooling system for computer hardware includes an infrastructure module and a payload module. The infrastructure module is configured for housing computer hardware and is equipped with either or both of a convective air cooling system and an arrangement of metal plates connected by one or more conduits for carrying liquid for cooling computer equipment housed by the ...