ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,284, issued on April 21, was assigned to NEXTRONICS ENGINEERING CORP. (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and NEXTRONICS ENGINEERING(GUANGDONG) CORP. (Guangzhou City, China).

"Liquid-cooling quick connector device" was invented by Chih-Hsiung Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Zhi-Hong Deng (Guangzhou City, China), Ding-Yong Zeng (Guangzhou City, China) and Xiao-Qiong Liao (Guangzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid-cooling quick connector device includes first and second connectors that are mateable with each other. The first connector includes a first connector body and a locking mechanism having a button body, a top button c...