US Patent Issued to Rite-Hite Holding on March 3 for "Air barrier systems for data center zone containment" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,607, issued on March 3, was assigned to Rite-Hite Holding Corp. (Milwaukee).

"Air barrier systems for data center zone containment" was invented by Blaine Schmidt (Dubuque, Iowa), Kevin J. Gebke (Dubuque, Iowa), Nicholas L. Kaufmann (Sherrill, Iowa), Philip Sloan (Dubuque, Iowa) and William A. Niehaus (Holy Cross, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example air barrier system for a data center within a building is disclosed. The example air barrier system includes a pliable barrier material to partition an area above a top of row of computer cabinets in the data center and below an overhead surface of the building. The pliable bar...