ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,401, issued on April 15, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Parallel refrigerant cooling in datacenter cooling systems" was invented by Ali Heydari (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, multiple parallel refrigerant paths are associated with one or more flow controllers to cool multiple computing devices associated therewith, so that one or more flow controllers can distribute equal measures of a liquid phase of refrigerant, relative to a vapor phase of a refrigerant, to such parallel refrigerant paths based in part on a ...