US Patent Issued to Sanmina on July 8 for "Data storage housing with a set of hard drives and fan devices" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,278, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sanmina Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage housing with a set of hard drives and fan devices" was invented by Odie Banks Killen Jr. (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Bradley S. Holway (Manitou Springs, Colo.) and Matthew J. Babcock (Monument, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One feature pertains to an acoustic attenuation device. The acoustic attenuation device comprises a fan assembly, the fan assembly including at least one fan module that directs airflow in at least one direction, wherein the at least one fan module includes a top surface and a bottom surface, a plurality of air deflectors m...