ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,919, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for managing the cooling of a distributed cooling system" was invented by Amruta Misra (Bangalore, India), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Arun Hodigere (Bangalore, India), Kshitij Arun Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.) and John J. Browne (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for maintaining the cooling systems of distributed compute systems are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes memory, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute t...