ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,809, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Fan enhancements to improve server performance and quality" was invented by David F. Heinrich (Tomball, Texas), Pranay Mahendra (Tomball, Texas), Stephen Robert Jones (Cypress, Texas) and Gennadiy Rozenberg (Spring, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided, which manages, by a microcontroller internal to a fan installed in a server, power data associated with the fan, wherein the fan includes two pins configured to communicate signals based on an inter-integrated circuit (I2C). During operation of the fan, the microc...