US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 21 for "Detecting failure of a fan of an information handling system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,331, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Detecting failure of a fan of an information handling system" was invented by Qinghong He (Austin, Texas) and Douglas Jarrett Peeler (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting failure of a fan of an IHS, including comparing a sound pressure level of an environment noise associated with an environment of the IHS with a threshold; determining, based on the comparing, that the sound pressure level of the environment noise is less than the threshold, and in response: increasing a magnitude of RPM of the fan to correspond to a sound pressure level ...