US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Sept. 23 for "Immersion cooling with water-based fluid using nano-structured coating" (Illinois, California, Indiana, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,206, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Immersion cooling with water-based fluid using nano-structured coating" was invented by Nenad Miljkovic (Urbana, Ill.), Thomas Foulkes (Terre Haute, Ind.), Patrick Birbarah (Lacrosse, Wis.), Tarek Gebrael (Champaign, Ill.), Andrew Stillwell (Champaign, Ill.) and Robert Pilawa-Podgurski (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system includes a container having a water-based fluid in which are immersed printed circuit boards (PCBs). One or more high-thermal electrical components are disposed on the PCBs. A co...