ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,449, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Structure for detection and collection of leaked coolant" was invented by Yi-Chieh Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yueh-Chang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yan-Kuei Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yu-Hung Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure for protecting an electronic component from coolant leaking from a liquid cooling system is disclosed. The liquid cooling system has a manifold collecting and supplying coolant to a cold plate via inlet and outlet tubes. The cold plate is mounted over a heat-generating component on a circuit board. The structur...