ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,944, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Computing device noise control" was invented by Yun David Tang (Spring, Texas), Nick Thamma (Spring, Texas), Hui Leng Lim (Spring, Texas), Yi Ying Lai (Taipei, Taiwan), Davis Matthew Castillo (Spring, Texas) and Pei Hsuan Li (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device comprises: a surface-type sensor to detect a type of surface on which the device is located; a proximity sensor; and a processor. The processor is to: in response to detecting, using the surface-type sensor, that the device is located on a soft-type surface,...