ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,402, issued on April 8, was assigned to FUJITSU GENERAL Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Fan and indoor equipment" was invented by Hirotaka Sawada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan includes a multi wing fan and a mechanism configured to rotate the multi wing fan around a rotation axis, wherein the multi wing fan includes two impellers lined in an axial direction is parallel to the rotation axis, and a partition plate arranged along a plane perpendicular to the rotation axis, the partition plate includes a body part that separates the two impellers, and an outer circumferential part that surrounds an outer circumferential ...