ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,126, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Quanta Computer Inc. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Leak detection and protection system for liquid cooling" was invented by Yi-Chieh Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Te-Chuan Wang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Shao-Yu Chiu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Tzu-Hsuan Hsu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coolant leak detection and protection system for rack mounted servers is disclosed. The system includes an inlet coolant tube and a feeder coolant tube for supplying coolant to a cold plate that is thermally in contact with a heat generating component. An outlet coolant tube collects coolant from...