ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,093, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Vertiv Corp. (Westerville, Ohio).

"Time-based energy efficient safe mode for freecooling unit" was invented by Amruta B. Jamdade (Chandannagar, India), Rahul A. Gosavi (Pune, India) and Abhijeet V Deshmukh (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for time-based safe mode operation of a multi-mode chiller device incorporating a freecooling system and a direct refrigeration system (e.g., wherein a fluid loop is circulated between the chiller device and a data center or similarly sensitive environment, from which the chilled water transfers heat before returning to the chill...