ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,382, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Rack-mountable heat-exchanger for modular electronic systems" was invented by Rohit Dev Gupta (Bangalore, India), Manigandan Boopalan (Bangalore, India), Arjun G. Jayaprakash (Bengaluru, India) and Parag Ghate (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rack-mountable heat-exchanger for modular electronic systems is provided that include a heat exchanger including ambient air inlets and outlets forming an ambient airflow path in a first direction, and recirculating air inlets and outlets forming a recirculating airflow path in a second direction...