ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,173, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"System airflow bypassing restricted rear I/O panel via power supply unit region" was invented by Qinghong He (Austin, Texas) and Ting-Chiang Huang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one or more embodiments, a chassis may be formed with a side vent in a wall separating a main section with a plurality of components and a side section comprising a power supply unit (PSU) assembly. A main fan may generate a first airflow through the chassis and a PSU fan may generate a second airflow through the PSU housing. A side vent in the wall allo...