ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,500, issued on June 24, was assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"System and method for cooling electronic computing device with multiple-function pump" was invented by Chao-Jung Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Kuo-Wei Lee (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Huan-Shu Chien (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling distribution system cools an electronic computing device and includes a plurality of hot-swappable pump modules mounted within a distribution unit chassis and configured to circulate a coolant along a main cooling path. A coolant inlet manifold is mounted within the chassis and is fluidly coupled to the pump module...