ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,239, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Controlling electric fans of cabinet assemblies" was invented by Yi-Chieh Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yueh-Chang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Te-Chuan Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Tzu-Hsuan Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example assembly includes an equipment room, a cabinet fan module having fans, and a processor configured to execute logic. Temperature sensors are positioned in the air inlet channel and the equipment room. An electrical component having an air inlet area is also positioned in the equipment room. The logic causes the fans to ...