US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 21 for "Generating fan control signal for computing device" (Washington, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,867, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generating fan control signal for computing device" was invented by Nikita Ramesh Wanjale (Bellevue, Wash.), David Michael Sutherland (Tucson, Ariz.) and Jonathan Robert Pease (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device is provided, including one or more processing devices, one or more temperature sensors, a fan, and a fan tachometer. The one or more processing devices may be configured to execute an application program. While executing the application program, the one or more processing devices may be further configured to co...