US Patent Issued to Levitronix on Oct. 6 for "Fan" (British, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,768, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Levitronix GmbH (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Fan" was invented by Thomas Holenstein (Umiken, Great Britain) and Florian Wassmer (Aarau, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan having a rotor for generating a fluid flow includes a stator and a rotor, which form an electromagnetic rotary drive for rotating the rotor about an axial direction. The rotary drive is an external rotor, and the rotor includes a magnetically effective core configured in an annular manner. The impeller includes a hub on which a plurality of blades configured to generate the fluid flow is arranged, and the stator is a be...