ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,800, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for service life management based on corrosive material removal" was invented by Steven Embleton (Austin, Texas), Jon Taylor Fitch (Austin, Texas), Sandor T. Farkas (Round Rock, Texas) and Joseph Danny King (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for environmentally managing a computing device of an information handling system includes extracting, using a corrosive material filter, corrosive materials from an airflow that thermally manages a computing component of the computing device. The method further includes, while...