ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,042, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Ventiva Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Mechanical design of electro-hydrodynamic air mover apparatus" was invented by Jeffrey S. Nespor (Pleasanton, Calif.), Gary A. Oliverio (San Jose, Calif.), Himanshu Pokharna (Saratoga, Calif.), Denis Finbarr O'Connell (Palo Alto, Calif.), Srikanth Ganesan (Fremont, Calif.), Collin Connors (San Jose, Calif.) and Robert Haden Garrett (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an electro-hydrodynamic air mover apparatus that includes a pair of isolators, a collector electrode, an emitter electrode, and a pa...