ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,032, issued on April 15, was assigned to KELDA SHOWERS Ltd. (Eastleigh, Great Britain).
"Shower head and method of operation to produce a suspension of water droplets in air" was invented by John Scott Shrimpton (Salisbury, Great Britain), Samvir Thandi (Southampton, Great Britain), Benjamin Doulis (Southampton, Great Britain) and William Penfold (Southampton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shower head is supplied with an annular airflow which surrounds a column of water travelling through a chamber to produce a suspension of water droplets in air, the diameter and length of the chamber and the diameter of the water co...