ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,140, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"System and method for hybrid direct-to-chip liquid and immersion cooling" was invented by Chao-Jung Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yu-Nien Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Herman Tan (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid cooling system is configured to receive heat-generating components of an information technology (IT) device. The system includes a chassis having a peripheral wall that extends between a chassis base and an open top surface, the peripheral wall forming an enclosure between an upstream side and a downstream side. An immersion condu...