ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,948, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CHUNG-YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY (Chung Li, Taiwan).

"Micro blower" was invented by Yung Ting (Chung Li, Taiwan), Sheuan-Perng Lin (Chung Li, Taiwan), Chih-Hsuan Yu (Chung Li, Taiwan) and Reno Pangestu (Chung Li, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro blower includes a base metal sheet, a flowing channel layer, a sandwich metal sheet, a capping layer and two first piezoelectric vibrators. The flowing channel layer is connected to the top of the base metal sheet and includes a first chamber, a second chamber, an inlet channel, a linking channel and an outlet channel. The inlet channel link...