ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,405, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ANPEC ELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Multi-fan control system" was invented by Ruei-Hung Chiou (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wei-Chih Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-fan control system is provided. A controller, within each of a plurality of time intervals, outputs a control signal including a reading command to one of a plurality of fans, and outputs a control signal including a writing command to another of the plurality of fans. The controller, within each of the plurality of time intervals, only reads operation state data of the one of the plurality of fans that re...