US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on July 22 for "Systems and methods associated with sound dampening in blowers" (Illinois, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,256, issued on July 22, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Systems and methods associated with sound dampening in blowers" was invented by Benjamin J. Owen-Block (St. Cloud, Minn.) and Ryan Edward McKernan (Green Oaks, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods associated with sound dampening in blowers are provided. A blower including an air inlet; an air outlet; a conduit extending between the air inlet and the air outlet, the conduit defining a fan location and a fan stator disposed in series with the fan location, the fan stator defining at least one stator blade; and an axial fan disp...