ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,720, issued on March 18, was assigned to Innomist LLC (Addison, Texas).

"Multi-mode fluid nozzles" was invented by Xinqi Rong (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-mode fluid nozzle includes a mixing chamber with a stream mode fluid inlet connected to one side of the chamber, a fluid outlet connected to the opposite side of the chamber and at least one mist mode fluid inlet connected to the periphery of the chamber. The discharge pattern of the nozzle depends upon the inlets fluid enters the mixing chamber such that when the fluid enters the mixing chamber through the stream mode fluid inlet, the fluid exits the fluid outle...