ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,896, issued on March 3, was assigned to Whisper Aero Inc. (Crossville, Tenn.).

"Air moving devices, aerodynamic rotor, and methods" was invented by Mark Douglass Moore (Crossville, Tenn.), Ian Andreas Villa (Nashville, Tenn.), Devon Jedamski (Nashville, Tenn.), Xiaofan Fei (Bellevue, Wash.), Andrew George Terajewicz (Nashville, Tenn.), Jonathan Jeffrey Paravano (Brentwood, Tenn.), Andrew Michael Marschner (Nashville, Tenn.) and Matthew Alan Dempsey (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-moving device may include an aerodynamic rotor in the form of a bladed disk. The aerodynamic rotor may include a physical geometry t...