ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,199, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Joint, cooling system, and computer apparatus" was invented by Xinhu Gong (Shenzhen, China), Haofeng Chen (Dongguan, China) and Gaoliang Xia (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint includes a male module and a female module capable of docking with each other. The male module includes a core rod and a sliding cylinder that is slidably sleeved on an outer periphery of the core rod. A first valve port is disposed in the sliding cylinder, and the core rod is provided with a piston head that is in hermetic fit with the first valve p...