ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,200, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Zonit Structured Solutions LLC (Boulder, Colo.).
"Modular data center cooling" was invented by Steve Chapel (Iliff, Colo.) and William Pachoud (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular arrangement is provided for housing electronic equipment and associated cooling structure in a data center environment. The modular units provide cooling air on an as-needed basis to individual pieces of equipment by way of individual plenums and associated valves. The units can be interconnected by vertical stacking, in side-to-side arrangements, and back-to-back arrangements. A number of units ...