US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 22 for "Optical sensor for two-phase cooling vapor level measurement" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,975, issued on April 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Optical sensor for two-phase cooling vapor level measurement" was invented by Robert Craig McFarlane Jr. (Sammamish, Wash.) and Craig Steven Ranta (Olympia, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An immersion cooling system includes an immersion tank defining an immersion chamber therein, an immersion working fluid, an energy source, an optical sensor, and a microcontroller. The immersion working fluid is positioned at least partially in the immersion chamber and the immersion working fluid has a liquid phase and a vapor phase. The energy sour...