ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,307, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to RITTAL GMBH & Co. KG (Herborn, Germany).

"Switch cabinet arrangement with at least one it rack or switch cabinet housing and with at least one cooling unit, and a corresponding method" was invented by Frank Himmelhuber (Kummersbruck, Germany), Stephan Helmut Matthies (Siegen, Germany) and Andreas Meyer (Fronhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch cabinet arrangement and method with at least one IT rack or switch cabinet housing and with at least one cooling device, which has an air-liquid heat exchanger for cooling components accommodated in the IT rack or switch cabinet housing...