ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,098, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Immersion cooling electronic devices" was invented by Yongduk Lee (Vernon, Conn.), Ankit Gupta (Willimantic, Conn.) and Parag M. Kshirsagar (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments have two approaches as follows: (1) Embedded PCB-based fabrication and (2) PCB assembly-based fabrication. An embedded printed circuit board (PCB) type approach involves the creation of a space of coolant direct interconnection, using immersion cooling to link on any type of power semiconductor device hot spots to convectively and evaporatively c...