ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,980, issued on June 17, was assigned to ESPEC CORP. (Osaka, Japan).
"Snow making apparatus and environment forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Enoki (Osaka, Japan), Koshi Tamura (Osaka, Japan) and Kouki Sakane (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A snow making apparatus includes a cylindrical body and a snow making nozzle that jets water droplets into the cylindrical body. The cylindrical body has a proximal end that is opened to a temperature environment where snow can be produced from water droplets jetted from the snow making nozzle. A distal end of the cylindrical body is connected to a pipe member communicating w...