ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,398, issued on July 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for thermal management of hardware components" was invented by Eric Michael Tunks (Austin, Texas), Julian Yu-Hao Chen (Austin, Texas) and Michael Albert Perks (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, a data processing system may include hardware components that provide the computer implemented services. Any of the hardware components may have a limited thermal operating range. To retain the temperatures...