ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,104, issued on March 17, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Ventilation device" was invented by Daisuke Kanematsu (Aichi, Japan), Masafumi Tsubouchi (Aichi, Japan) and Koki Ando (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilator includes a box having an air inlet on a bottom surface of the box and an air outlet on a side surface different from the bottom surface of the box, a fan case for storing a fan and sending air from the air inlet to the air outlet, and an adapter fixed to the side surface of the box where the air outlet is disposed as a component independent of the box....