ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,738, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Computing rack liquid cooling adapter system and method" was invented by Ben John Sy (Austin, Texas), James Don Curlee (Round Rock, Texas) and Daniel Alvarado (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a computing rack liquid cooling adapter system and method that enables compatibility among differing cooling system architectures of different types. According to one embodiment, a computing rack liquid cooling adapter system includes a tray configured to be inserted in a slot of a computing rack, and fi...