ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,193, issued on April 21, was assigned to MICRO-STAR INT'L Co. LTD. (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and MSI ELECTRONIC (KUN SHAN) Co. LTD. (Kunshan City, China).

"Fan noise control method and fan noise control device" was invented by Yi-Fen Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Hsin-Huang Tsai (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yu-Szu Lee (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan noise control method includes being activated by a power-on signal to perform: controlling a rotation speed of a fan not to be greater than a first predetermined rotation speed, obtaining a power consumption of a computing device, obtaining a first temperature...