ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,751, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Centrifugal heat dissipation fan" was invented by Yu-Ming Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Mao-Neng Liao (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Cheng-Wen Hsieh (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Kuang-Hua Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chun-Chieh Wang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Tsung-Ting Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal heat dissipation fan suited for a laptop computer is provided. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan includes a housing having a plurality of recesses, a hub rotating disposed in the housing, and a plurality of blades di...