ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,189, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for vapor management in immersion cooling" was invented by Ioannis Manousakis (Redmond, Wash.), Nicholas Andrew Keehn (Kirkland, Wash.) and Husam Atallah Alissa (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for thermal management of a computing device includes an immersion chamber, a cooling fluid, a plurality of heat-generating components, and a means for removing vapor from a cooling volume of the cooling fluid. The cooling fluid is positioned in the immersion chamber and fills at least a portion of the immers...