ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,461, issued on July 7, was assigned to EBM-PAPST MULFINGEN GMBH & Co. KG (Mulfingen, Germany).
"Method and fan system for determination of a current operating point of a fan unit" was invented by Erik Brisenheim (Segeltorp, Sweden), Stefan Hess (Dortmund, Germany) and Sven Fielsch (Wuppertal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a ventilator system designed to carry out the method. The method is used to ascertain a current operating point of a ventilator unit having a ventilator and at least one filter. By determining the current operating point, a conclusion can also be drawn regarding the degree of clogging of the fil...