ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,978, issued on May 27, was assigned to Howden Axial Fans APS (Naestved, Denmark).
"Guide vanes for fully reversible turbomachinery" was invented by William Murray Whyte (Glasgow, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide vane optimized for fully reversible turbomachinery where the guide vane is substantially planar, and has a profiled first edge and an opposite symmetrical second edge. The profiled first edge may include a first arc and a second arc, where the first and second arc differ from one another in their shape characteristics (e.g., arc length, arc height, curvature, radius, etc.). The second edge may be symmetric...