ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,469, issued on Sept. 9.

"Apparatus for generating dry mist" was invented by Bryan K. Wilcox (Cecar City, Utah) and Kenton T. Meadows (Cedar City, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dry mist generating apparatus has a plastic housing, an ultrasonic transducer, a fan inducing airflow within the plastic housing, a diffuser plate for directing airflow, increasing velocity, and decreasing pressure, at least one opening for releasing the resulting dry mist, and a reservoir for capturing droplets that exceed 4 microns."

The patent was filed on Sept. 15, 2022, under Application No. 17/932,581.

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