ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,133, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Desiccant coated fan blade" was invented by Ravi Neelakantan (San Francisco), Michael Benedict (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kathryn F. Murphy (San Francisco), Mahati Chintapalli (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Stephen Meckler (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method utilize one or more fans each having fan blades. The fan blades have a desiccant material on an outer surface. The desiccant material is operable to adsorb airborne moisture in an ambient airflow and desorb moisture in a heated airflow. The fan blades are operable to drive one or both of t...