ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,397, issued on July 22, was assigned to DEMACLENKO IT S.R.L. (Vipiteno, Italy).

"Dispensing assembly for a snow generator and snow generator comprising said dispensing assembly" was invented by Florian Stuffer (Vipiteno, Italy) and Achim Frontull (Vipiteno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispensing assembly for a snow generator has a fixed structure having a circular opening extending along the longitudinal axis; a rotor extending along the longitudinal axis, which has one free end at the circular opening, and is configured to rotate around a rotational axis, preferably coinciding with the longitudinal axis; and a water suppl...