US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 30 for "Optical leak sensing with flexible waveguides" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,400, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Optical leak sensing with flexible waveguides" was invented by Michael Stumpf (Cedar Park, Texas) and Sandor Farkas (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical detector for detecting a coolant leak from a liquid cooling system within an information handling system includes a light source and a sensor configured to absorb light emitted from objects illuminated by the light source. A first flexible waveguide is communicatively coupled to the light source, and a second flexible waveguide is communicatively coupled to the sensor. The optical d...