ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,811, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DUPRAY VENTURES INC. (Montreal).

"Portable steamer device with cooling feature" was invented by Brent Gray (Montreal), Michel Morand (Verdun, Canada) and Guillaume Cavalie (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable steamer device may include a casing, and a heater in the casing, the heater configured for heating liquid into steam. One or more nozzles are configured for exhausting steam from the heater. A volume is defined fined between a wall of the casing and the heater. A liquid conduit has a cooling segment passing through the volume and in fluid communication with the heater, the l...