ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,280, issued on March 25, was assigned to ZT Group Int'l Inc. (Secaucus, N.J.).

"Apparatus providing liquid temperature data from individual direct cold plate cooling units" was invented by Sruti Chigullapalli (Secaucus, N.J.), Lauren Ficek (Secaucus, N.J.), Brian Pilapil (Secaucus, N.J.) and Karan Mehta (Secaucus, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system provide coolant temperature data at the individual electronic device level, e.g., for a single server blade, using thermally conductive couplers positioned in-line with one or both of the fluid inlet and outlet tubes and temperature sensors in thermal contact with...