US Patent Issued to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 30 for "Method and system for failure predication of cooling fan" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,091, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORP. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Method and system for failure predication of cooling fan" was invented by Ta-Yung Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), I-Chi Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chang-Yi Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shih-Jen Yang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting failure of a cooling fan includes driving a motor of the cooling fan based on a control speed, generating a first speed according to an average speed of the motor, generating a first current according to an average current of the motor, retrieving a system coefficient from a memory, gen...