ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,008, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"System and method for reducing acoustic energy near HDD systems" was invented by Jean Marie Doglio (Round Rock, Texas), Evangelos Konstantinos Koutsavdis (Leander, Texas), Chris E. Peterson (Austin, Texas) and Paul Allen Waters (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for protecting a hard disc drive (HDD) from acoustic energy in a chassis comprises a set of foam strips formed from acoustically absorptive material. Each foam strip has a thickness such that, when the HDD is installed in a chassis, the acoustically absorptive material is in a su...