ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,736, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Fan guard for fan" was invented by George Edward Curtis (San Jose, Calif.), Vic Hong Chia (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Chejung Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan guard that includes an array of openings disposed adjacent to one another along a plane to enable flow of air directed transverse to the plane, segments that each include a face extending along the plane and a thickness extending transverse to the plane, and flanges connected to the segments to cooperatively form the array of openings. Each flange includes a depth extending tr...