ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,981, issued on April 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for proactive management of heating systems in data processing systems" was invented by Donald W. Gerhart (Leander, Texas), Randy Alton Frazier (New Braunfels, Texas) and Curtis Ray Genz (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operat...