ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,203, issued on April 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Configurable bi-directional airflow fan" was invented by Yongguo Chen (Shanghai), Peter Christopher McLean (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vic Hong Chia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zahid Naveed Aziz (Newark, Calif.) and Harvey Yang (Tracy, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various devices, systems, and methods are described herein that provide bi-directional, and even multi-directional airflow within fan systems. These fan systems can be utilized by devices such as datacenter switches to change from one direction of airflow (such as port side inlet) to another dir...