ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,672, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Battery fire suppressant system" was invented by John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Noah Singer (White Plains, N.Y.), John Torok (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Arkadiy O. Tsfasman (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for a fire suppressant system on a server rack includes an integrated battery feature, a manifold, a conduit, and a control card, where the integrated battery feature includes a plurality of battery cells in an enclosure. A first end of the conduit coupled to a control valve on the manifold and a second e...