ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,794, issued on March 11, was assigned to Soluna Holdings Inc. (Albany, N.Y.).
"Modular data center" was invented by Nicholaus Ray Lancaster (Albany, N.Y.) and Dipul Patel (Albany, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data center in an environment has modules. Each module has a housing and an air mover. The housing contains processing devices that generate heat during operation. Each module has an air inlet on a first side of the housing and receives air from the environment. Each module also has an air outlet on a second side of the housing to exhaust air from the housing. At least three modules are spaced apart to form lateral spa...