US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Organic rankine cycle for data center electronics cooling and thermal energy recovery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,300, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Organic rankine cycle for data center electronics cooling and thermal energy recovery" was invented by Hussam Zebian (Milpitas, Calif.), Toshiki Hirano (San Jose, Calif.) and Neale Jones (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for recovering power from data center waste heat involves an organic Rankine cycle which includes pumping an organic working fluid through a low-temperature preheater chamber configured to exchange relatively low-temperature waste heat from low-temperature data storage devices to the organic wo...