ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,567, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to OVH (Roubaix, France).

"Data center rack assembly and cooling fluid control method with leak alert" was invented by Ali Chehade (Moncheaux, France), Mohamad Hnayno (Roubaix, France), Hadrien Bauduin (Villeneuve d'Ascq, France) and Henryk Klaba (Roubaix, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rack assembly for a data center includes: a rack frame housing at least one heat-generating component; a heat exchanger defining a first internal fluid conduit; at least one liquid cooling block connected to the at least one heat-generating component, each of the at least one liquid cooling block defining ...