ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,064, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FlexGen Power Systems LLC (Durham, N.C.).
"Active fan balancing" was invented by Norman Ross Farquhar (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), Joshua Chase Adams (Canby, Ore.), Jacob Hansen (Newburyport, Mass.), Walter Donald Tate (Vancouver, Wash.) and Pooja Latthe (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are provided for controlling fans associated with battery racks located in an enclosure. The fans can be ranked according to different criteria, such as using an average temperature of cells in a battery rack, a temperature of an enclosure housing the battery racks, an average t...