ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,988, issued on June 10, was assigned to NEOPERL GMBH (Mullheim, Germany).
"Aerator" was invented by Gerhard Blum (Gutach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A jet regulator (1) which can be mounted on the water outlet of a sanitary outlet fitting and has a jet regulator housing (2), in which a jet splitter (3) is provided, which has splitter openings (17) for dividing the water flowing through into individual jets, and at least one insert part (5), which has a grid structure (6) consisting of two sets of parallel webs (7; 8) which touch one another or intersect at crossing nodes (9). In the jet regulator (1), the sets are arrange...