ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,179, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. (Manassas, Va.) and The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Fan apparatus with lift fan and louvered cover" was invented by Michael J. Duffy (Saint Charles, Mo.), Oliver Daniel Ensslin (Lucerne, Switzerland) and Emanuele Marano (Bern, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems, apparatuses, and methods relating to a fan apparatus including a lift fan mounted in a duct and a cover for the lift fan. In some examples, a fan apparatus has a louvered cover including louvers having different chord lengths and/or different projection dis...