ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,302, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for fan control across wide ambient temperatures" was invented by Donald W. Gerhart (Leander, Texas), Alaric Joaquim Narcissius Silveira (Austin, Texas), Eric Michael Tunks (Austin, Texas), Balamurugan Gnanasambandam (Bengaluru, India), Curtis Ray Genz (Round Rock, Texas), Randy Alton Frazier (New Braunfels, Texas) and Jeffrey Leighton Kennedy (Austin, 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 ...