ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,310, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SEA SONIC ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Magnetically attracted fan set" was invented by Hsiu-Cheng Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Cheng-Ting Chu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetically attracted fan set comprises N+1 fans, the Nless than=1, and each of the N+1 fans has a fan frame and an airflow generating component disposed on the fan frame. Any two adjacent fans of the N+1 fans respectively have a joint surface, each of the joint surfaces has at least one fixing member capable of forming magnetic attraction, when the joint surface is close to the other joint surf...