ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,971, issued on March 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Fan assembly" was invented by Pirooz Moradnia (Dublin, Ohio) and Jason A Widmer (Marysville, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan assembly includes a fan having a shroud having an inner surface defining a flow chamber and an outer surface defining a plurality of teeth arrayed circularly around a circumference of the shroud. The fan also includes a plurality of blades arranged circularly around a central axis of the fan and extending radially inwardly from the shroud towards the central axis of the fan. Each of the plurality of blades is arranged inside the ...