ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,134, issued on June 30, was assigned to GLOBAL WIN TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan anti-foreign matter structure includes a fan frame, and a fan wheel mounted in the fan frame to leave only the gap between the fan hub and a fan frame axle seat disk or a circuit board on a fan hub and the axle seat disk (i.e. fan hub interior space air outlet). The fan wheel is equipped with an air diversion radiator plate surrounding a rotating shaft, so that air ducts are defined between...