ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,591, issued on March 31, was assigned to ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG (Mulfingen, Germany).

"Multipart fan wheel with a fan wheel hub and a plurality of fan wheel blades formed separately therefrom" was invented by Erhard Gruber (Satteldorf, Germany), Oliver Haaf (Kupferzell, Germany), Thorsten Pissarczyk (Gemmingen, Germany) and Alexander Konzal (Igersheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan wheel (1) with a plurality of fan wheel blades (10) and a fan wheel hub (20) can be fixed to a motor (30) in order to drive the fan wheel (1) about a rotation axis (X) that extends centrally through the fan wheel hub (20). Each o...