ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,350, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for maintaining the cooling systems of distributed compute systems" was invented by Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Amruta Misra (Bangalore, India), 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 processor circuitry to execute the machine-readable ...