ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,481, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Portable maintenance CDU and maintenance ports for supplying liquid coolant during primary CDU downtime" was invented by David Scott Chialastri (Montgomery, Texas), Pranay Mahendra (Tomball, Texas) and Arthur Volkmann (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may comprise one or more computing systems, each comprising a group of compute nodes configured to receive liquid coolant. The system also comprises a primary coolant distribution unit (CDU) fluidically coupled to the computing system via a first set of fluid coupling...