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ERIC KERN

Inventor. Builder. Founder.

I've spent my life turning emerging technologies into things people can actually use.

30 years at IBM & Lenovo125+ inventionsDistinguished EngineerAI · Systems · Startups

Selected inventions

A few ideas worth explaining out loud.

125 plus inventions

Inventions across systems, cloud, networking, HPC, and security

The list below is a sample of granted US patents from a much larger body of work. Each links to the public USPTO record.

US 12,414,274 · 2025

Measuring utilization to adjust water flow for cooling of servers

The problem

Datacenter cooling is provisioned for the worst case, so it burns energy the machines aren't asking for.

The idea

Technical deep dive coming

Why it mattered

Technical deep dive coming

Why I still care

AI datacenters are now thermally bound. This problem got bigger after I filed it.

Architecture sketch

  1. Servers

    utilization

  2. Measurement

    demand signal

  3. Flow control

    coolant

  4. Cooling loop

↺ Cooling follows measured demand instead of worst-case provisioning

Conceptual flow from the patent record — schematic, not an implementation drawing.

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