ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,291, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Mycronic AB (Taby, Sweden).

"Jetting devices with flexible jetting nozzle" was invented by Gustaf Martensson (Solna, Sweden) and Nerijus Augustis (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device configured to jet one or more droplets of a viscous medium may include a housing having an inner surface at least partially defining a jetting chamber configured to hold the viscous medium, and a flexible jetting nozzle. The flexible jetting nozzle may include a flexible conduit extending between an inlet orifice in an inner surface to an outlet orifice in an outer surface. The device may cause an i...