ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,089, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Whisper Aero Inc. (Crossville, Tenn.).

"Air-moving device with single-part rotor and methods" was invented by Mark Douglass Moore (Crossville, Tenn.), Ian Andreas Villa (Nashville, Tenn.), Devon Jedamski (Nashville, Tenn.), Xiaofan Fei (Bellevue, Wash.), Andrew George Terajewicz (Nashville, Tenn.), Jonathan Jeffrey Paravano (Brentwood, Tenn.), Andrew Michael Marschner (Nashville, Tenn.), Matthew Alan Dempsey (Nashville, Tenn.) and Timothy Jacob Mitchell (Sparta, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-moving device may include an aerodynamic rotor in the form of a bladed disk. The aerodynam...