ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,815, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Axial-flow heat-dissipation fan" was invented by Cheng-Wen Hsieh (New Taipei, Taiwan), Mao-Neng Liao (New Taipei, Taiwan), Kuang-Hua Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Chin Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Tsung-Ting Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial-flow heat-dissipation fan including a frame and a blade wheel is provided. The frame has an inlet, an outlet, and an inner wall connected between the inlet and the outlet. The inner wall surrounding the blade wheel has at least one rough region. The blade wheel is rotatably disposed in the fr...