US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on June 9 for "Fan speed control responsive to power status" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,779, issued on June 9, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fan speed control responsive to power status" was invented by Jim Woodward (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a fan and a fan controller configured to set a default speed of the fan. An initialization controller is configured to determine that the fan is powered on and to issue a control signal to the fan controller, responsive to the determination that the fan is powered on. The control signal overrides the default speed of the fan."

The patent was filed on Aug. 10, 2022, under Application No. 17/885,089.

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