US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on June 9 for "Rack heat exchanger to reduce room-level datacenter heat load" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,783, issued on June 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Rack heat exchanger to reduce room-level datacenter heat load" was invented by Shurong Tian (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) and Todd Edward Takken (Brewster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-rack cooling system is disclosed. The cooling system includes one or more computer drawers, one or more open areas in the rack, a heat exchanger, and one or more fans in the open areas of the rack. The open areas are areas within the rack where computer drawers could be installed, but are not. The fans direct air exhausted from the computer drawers through t...