ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,869, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal heat dissipation fan including a housing and a blade wheel disposed in the housing is provided. The housing has two inlets on a rotation axial direction of the blade wheel and at least one outlet on a rotation radial d...