ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,159, issued on July 21, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).
"Electronic apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Shinya Tsuchida (Tokyo), Nils Sabelstrom (Uppsala, Sweden), Mitsuharu Morishita (Tokyo), Masanori Hayashibara (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Ootori (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keiichi Aoki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electronic apparatus that acquires an ambient temperature of the electronic apparatus and operates a cooling device to cool a component that generates heat during an operation. When the ambient temperature is lower than a predetermined reference temperature, the ele...