ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,839, issued on June 24, was assigned to ZT Group Int'l Inc. (Secaucus, N.J.).
"Integrated fan guard" was invented by Ting Yu Lin (Secaucus, N.J.) and Felix Fang Ning Liu (Secaucus, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided that integrates the fan grill and mounting pins, which facilitates the installation and removal of fans from tight locations, e.g., servers. Thus, avoiding the potential that separate mounting pins are accidentally lost, which may result in an unstable fan mounting, or left behind in the server, which may result in an out-of-line fan mounting. In addition, embodiments may include curved upper mou...