ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,280, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Thermal management system for an information handling system" was invented by Travis C. North (Cedar Park, Texas), Enoch Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Pomin Shih (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Michael James Pescetto (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management system, including a fan including: a fan housing; an impeller coupled to the fan housing; a fin stack coupled to the fan; a heat pipe having a first end and a second end, the heat pipe in thermal communication with a computing element at the first end of the heat pipe; a vapor ch...