ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,179, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Passive noise dissipator for laptop cooling fans" was invented by Amit Kumar (Bangalore, India), Rachit Garg (Bangalore, India), Arnab Sen (Whitefield, India), Ruander Cardenas (Portland, Ore.) and Prasanna Pichumani (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a blower apparatus includes a housing defining an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The blower apparatus also includes a fan within the housing and a porous material coupled to the housing. The porous material is disposed over at least a portion of the inlet opening of the hou...