ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,080, issued on May 27, was assigned to Bosch Automotive Products (Changsha) Co. Ltd. (Changsha, China).

"Impeller and fan assembly" was invented by Dongyang Dai (Changsha, China), Chuanwei Liao (Changsha, China), Jian Li (Changsha, China), Linglin Wu (Changsha, China), Liping Huang (Changsha, China), Qinming Zeng (Changsha, China) and Yufeng Peng (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impeller includes a hub having an axial direction as a rotation axis and extending from a first end to a second end, and including an end surface and a first wall. The end surface is positioned at the first end of the hub, one end of the fir...