Google Sued Over Alleged Circuitry Cooling System Infringement

A San Diego inventor is suing Google LLC, claiming the tech giant infringed on his patented technology for a process that cools electronic circuitry.

James Hildebrandt alleges Google has implemented the technology for his patented liquid-cooling process that removes heat from computer components, a process that accelerated in 2018, when Google began using pods of liquid-cooled servers for artificial intelligence workloads.

Google has infringed on his patent through its version 3 Tensor Processing Units that feature “server motherboards” with tubing connected to chip “heat sinks” that facilitate liquid cooling of the company’s data centers and cloud servers, alleges Hildebrandt ...