ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,652, issued on May 13, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"Air vent for a vehicle" was invented by Michael Demerath (Huffler, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air vent (100) for a vehicle, wherein the air vent (100) has a housing (1a, 1b) with an air inlet region (3) and an opposite air outlet region (5), wherein a housing wall of the housing (1a, 1b) delimits, at least in certain regions, an air duct (7) for air flowing from the air inlet region (3) to the air outlet region (5) along a main flow direction (H), upstream of the air outlet region (5), the air duct (7) is subdivided into at least two sub...