US Patent Issued to Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) on Sept. 23 for "System for ensuring continued operation of fan notwithstanding BMC failure" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,202, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co. LTD. (Tianjin, China).

"System for ensuring continued operation of fan notwithstanding BMC failure" was invented by Xiao-Long Zhou (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for maintaining the operation of a cooling fan for a server if that function of a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the server should fail includes the BMC and a control module. The control module is electrically connected to the BMC and the fan, and the control module receives a first signal outputted by the BMC in a cycle and determines the state of the BMC ...