ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,708, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ACER Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Electronic system having heat dissipation and feed-forward active noise control function" was invented by Po-Jen Tu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jia-Ren Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Kai-Meng Tzeng (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system includes a fan module, an embedded controller, a reference microphone, a stereo speaker module, a beam-forming control module and an ANC controller. The beam-forming control module controls the orientation of the stereo speaker module, which provides a noise cancellation signal according to a speaker co...