ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,152, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Default operating modes" was invented by Jonathan D. Bassett (Fort Collins, Colo.) and James Edward Douglas (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example computing device includes a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions and a processor to execute the instructions. The instructions are executable to detect a hardware configuration of the computing device by identifying hardware components within the computing device and determine an expected acoustic noise emission of the computing device b...