ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,279, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Electronics unit stand with movable fan carrier" was invented by Yao-Wen Fan (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yi-Hsieh Chiu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu Wei Tan (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Cheng-Yan Chiang (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronics unit (EU) stand may include a base and a fan carrier. The base is to couple to an electronics unit having heat generating components. The fan carrier supports a fan. The fan carrier is movably coupled to the base to move the fan between a first position relative to the base and second po...