US Patent Issued to Nvidia on Nov. 18 for "Intelligent cold plate system with active and passive features for a datacenter cooling system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,696, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Intelligent cold plate system with active and passive features for a datacenter cooling system" 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, a cold plate has microchannels and a heat pipe to support a first fluid in an active mode of operation of a cold plate that uses microchannels, and to support a second fluid in a passive mode of operation of a cold plate that uses a heat pipe."

The patent was filed on Jan. 21, 2021, under Application No...