ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,963, issued on May 5, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Server air cross-transfer blanking for datacenter cooling systems" was invented by Ali Heydari (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, one or more blanks may be associated with a motorized subsystem and can be used with one or more server openings on a rack, so that the motorized subsystem can cause the one or more blanks to close or open an individual server opening based in part on a change within the individual server opening."

The patent was filed on July 6, 2021,...