ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,798, issued on June 3, was assigned to AIREX Co. LTD. (Japan).

"Mist supply device" was invented by Koji Kawasaki (Nagoya, Japan), Daisuke Kakuda (Nagoya, Japan), Jun Masudome (NNagoya, Japan), Haruka Futamura (Nagoya, Japan), Yukihiro Yazaki (Nagoya, Japan), Tsukasa Kitano (Nagoya, Japan), Zhiqiang Guo (Nagoya, Japan) and Ayumi Ogawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mist supply device configured to decontaminate a target with a proper amount of decontamination agent supplied to the target by converting such agent into a fine mist, and reducing the duration of operations such as aeration to increase decontamination effi...