ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,163, issued on July 21, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Automatic leveling immersion cooling tank and method of operating the same" was invented by Wei-Sheng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chung-Chiu Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a coolant tank in which a coolant is stored. One or more electrical components that generate thermal energy when in operation are stored within the coolant tank and are immersed (e.g., partially submerged or fully submerged) within the coolant to mitigate the thermal energy generated when in operation. One or more sensors are ...