ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,105, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Compute-on-fan-tray-assembly (COFTA) system" was invented by Neal Beard (Austin, Texas), Padmanabhan Narayanan (Chennai, India), Per Henrik Fremrot (Novato, Calif.) and Vamshidhar Varre (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Compute-On-Fan-Tray-Assembly (COFTA) system includes a fan chassis that is configured to be positioned in a networking device, and that has a fan module coupling subsystem that is configured to couple at least one fan module to the fan chassis. A compute subsystem is mounted to the fan chassis and is configured to perform com...