ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,437, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for immersion-cooled datacenters" was invented by Eric C. Peterson (Woodinville, Wash.), Martha Geoghegan Peterson (Woodinville, Wash.) and Vaidehi Oruganti (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management system includes a server computer and a shell defining an immersion chamber. The shell contacts the server computer along a bottom side and lateral walls of the chamber, and the immersion chamber has an opening on a top side. The shell is connected to the server computer and a portion of the server c...