US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Oct. 28 for "Fan speed control for high tonality avoidance" (Canadian, American, Estonian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,714, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Fan speed control for high tonality avoidance" was invented by Gregory Allen Nielsen (Kirkland, Wash.), Benjamin Francis Walker (Vancouver, Canada), Jani Samuli Kuivalainen (Duvall, Wash.), Sneha Rajeev Sondur (Seattle) and Ergo Esken (Miiduranna, Estonia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for reducing high tonality sounds by controlling the speed of a fan to avoid a range of fan speeds. A target speed of the fan is determined. When the target speed is in a lower portion of the range, a signal is transmitted to ...