ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,736, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for immersion-cooled datacenters" was invented by Husam Atallah Alissa (Redmond, Wash.), Ioannis Manousakis (Redmond, Wash.), Nicholas Andrew Keehn (Kirkland, Wash.), Eric C. Peterson (Woodinville, Wash.), Bharath Ramakrishnan (Bellevue, Wash.), Christian L. Belady (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Ricardo Gouvea Bianchini (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid-submersible thermal management system includes a cylindrical outer shell and an inner shell positioned in an interior volume of the outer shell. The cylin...