ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,589, issued on July 8, was assigned to Super Micro Computer Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Pre-cooling device integrated liquid cooling distributor and its server liquid cooling system" was invented by Chia-Wei Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Kun-Chieh Liao (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yueh-Ming Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A precooling device integrated with a cooling distribution unit and a server liquid cooling system are provided. The precooling device includes a liquid cooling row, an adapter assembly, and a cooling distribution unit. The adapter assembly includes a flow joining row and a flow distribution row. The co...