ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,019, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Pripco Ltd. (Cheltenham, Great Britain).

"Data center" was invented by Aaron Favill (Leamington Spa, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-level data center building, and a method of cooling servers in the building is disclosed. The building may have at least three data levels, each accommodating rack-storage areas for rows of server racks separating alternating hot and cold aisles, a plurality of air-handling units for supplying cooling air to the servers via the cold aisles, a cold-air supply corridor for transporting cold air from the air-handling units to the cold aisles an...