US Patent Issued to Whisper Aero on Feb. 10 for "Parallel and series multi-stage electric fan" (Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,400, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Whisper Aero Inc. (Crossville, Tenn.).

"Parallel and series multi-stage electric fan" was invented by Mark Douglass Moore (Crossville, Tenn.), Devon Jedamski (Nashville, Tenn.), Ian Andreas Villa (Nashville, Tenn.), Vineet Ahuja (Fort Washington, Pa.) and Andrew Stephen Hahn (Yorktown, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein may relate to aerial structures such as aircraft. An aerial structure may include a fuselage, a wing attached to the fuselage, and a plurality of propulsion systems configured to generate thrust. A propulsion system may include a plurality of propulsors,...