ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,694, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Configurable airflow direction fan system" was invented by Padmanabhan Narayanan (Chennai, India), Shree Rathinasamy (Round Rock, Texas), Vamshidhar Varre (Hyderabad, India), Neal Beard (Austin, Texas), Elayarajan Kannan (Chennai, India) and Per Henrik Fremrot (Novato, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configurable airflow direction fan system includes a fan device with a fan chassis connector, and a fan chassis that connects to a computing device. A first airflow direction fan device connector on the fan chassis connects to the fan chassis connector...