ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,564, issued on June 23, was assigned to ARCTIC (HK) Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Water cooler assembly and system" was invented by Vincent Andre (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Magnus Huber (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat transfer apparatus includes a first chamber horizontally offset from a second chamber to form an upper housing and a lower housing. Preferably, the two chambers do not overlap. The heat transfer apparatus may include a heat exchange interface including a cooler plate fixed to a bottom surface of the lower housing. The heat exchange interface may absorb heat from a proximate heat source and tr...