ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,732, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Configuring battery packs for computer systems" was invented by Yuanchen Hu (Peekskill, N.Y.), Jayapreetha Natesan (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Milnes P. David (New Paltz, N.Y.), Noah Singer (White Plains, N.Y.) and Natesan Venkateswaran (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a mesh cooling structure, methods and battery cooling systems for cooling a battery cell, such as used in computer systems. The disclosed mesh cooling structure, method and battery cooling system provide ef...