ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,706, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for a self driving silent cooling control system" was invented by Nikhil M. Vichare (Austin, Texas), Travis C. North (Cedar Park, Texas) and Mitchell A. Markow (Hutto, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system (IHS) includes a hardware processor, memory device, and a power management unit (PMU) to provide power to the processor and memory device. The IHS further includes a fan and fan motor operatively coupled to a motor driver hardware operated by the hardware processor and an ion emitter/collector blower coo...