ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,465, issued on July 7, was assigned to Global WIN Technology Co. Ltd. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Fan shaft structure" was invented by Shih-Jen Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Ching-Yao Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan shaft structure includes a fan frame having an axle seat set therein with a stator silicon steel sheet set and a circuit board installed outside the axle seat, a fan blade set in the fan frame holds a rotor magnet therein relative to the outside of the stator silicon steel sheet set, and a rotating shaft has one end assembled at the fan blade and its other end assembled in the axle seat. The oute...