ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,596, issued on March 25, was assigned to Atlas Copco IAS GmbH (Bretten, Germany).
"Application nozzle for application of a viscous material" was invented by Erich Lehner (Bad Friedrichshall, Germany), Bernhard Sauer (Delbronn-Duerrn, Germany), Tobias Rosenauer (Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany) and Christian Kammerer (Knittlingen-Hohenklingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application nozzle for applying a viscous material to workpieces includes a nozzle body and an application duct for the viscous material, the duct extending inside the nozzle body from a material inlet opening to a material outlet opening. At least one fil...