ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,054, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Evapco Inc. (Taneytown, Md.).
"Packaged fan" was invented by Ricardo de Araujo Pereira Andrade (Itu-SP, Brazil) and Luigi Martini (Itu-SP, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaged fan having a hub, a rotor, fan blades extending outward from said rotor, an electric motor electrically coupled to said rotor, a fan casing surrounding an outside perimeter of said fan blades, and a plurality of support vanes extending from said hub to outside said fan casing and configured to attach to a support structure, the support vanes having planar portion traversing an air flow path, the planar portion...