US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Sept. 15 for "Data and power cables suitable for immersion cooling" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,394, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Data and power cables suitable for immersion cooling" was invented by Richard Yufeng Liu (Woodbury, Minn.) and John P. Baetzold (North St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealed cable assembly includes a jacket enclosing a plurality of insulated wires. Each insulated wire includes a bare wire covered by surrounding insulation, and a cable plug or connector is electrically connected with the bare wires. A sealant surrounds the insulated wires in an air gap between the jacket and the insulated wires in a location at or near the cable...