ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,354, issued on May 13, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Fine water discharge device" was invented by Shinsuke Inoue (Kariya, Japan), Akiyoshi Hirano (Kariya, Japan), Akira Yamaguro (Kariya, Japan), Yoko Adachi (Kariya, Japan) and Machiyo Yasuda (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fine water discharge device includes a case having a flow path allowing a first space and a second space to communicate with each other, a blower which is disposed in the flow path, introduces air in the first space into the flow path, and discharges the air introduced into the flow path into the second space, a fine water generating ...