ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,007, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Power system based fan control method" was invented by Hao-Yu Wang (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsunobu Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Qianyi Lu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akinori Uchino (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a fan of a computing system includes: measuring a temperature of a subcomponent of the computing system; and comparing the temperature to a temperature threshold. When the temperature is greater or equal to than the temperature threshold, the fan is controlled based on a predetermined table of fan level settings. W...