US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 21 for "Absorbent pad for leak mitigation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,649, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Absorbent pad for leak mitigation" was invented by Rick Chun Kit Cheung (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Luke Thomas Gregory (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leak mitigation system for a fluid-cooled computing device includes an absorbent pad having a fluid sensor connected to an absorbent material. The absorbent pad is placed in a position relative to the fluid-cooled computing device to collect fluid from the cooling system. The sensor detects the presence of a fluid absorbed by the absorbent material and the leak mitigation s...