ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,546, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Treatment of articles" was invented by Daniel Martinez Gonzalez (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Alejandro Torres Pinero (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Xavier Gasso Puchal (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus is described comprising a hermetically sealable treatment chamber, a pump and a disperser. The treatment chamber comprises an interior into which an article to be treated can be disposed. The pump is in fluidic communication with the interior of the treatment chamber to form a closed loop about which ...