US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 24 for "Acoustic dampening air moving device housing" (Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,032, issued on June 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Acoustic dampening air moving device housing" was invented by Phillip V. Mann (Rochester, Minn.), Tyler Jandt (Austin, Texas), Sandra J. Shirk/Heath (Rochester, Minn.) and Tyler Smith (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air moving device (AMD) includes a housing that dampens noise and routes airflow. The AMD housing includes a focal-bearing surface that has an associated focal point. The focal-bearing surface routes airflow through the AMD housing and reflects and concentrates noise to the focal point. The AMD housing furthe...