ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,377, issued on March 11, was assigned to NEOPERL GMBH (Mullheim, Germany).
"Aerator" was invented by Wolf-Dieter Lacher (Mullheim, Germany) and Holger Schurle (Mullheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerator (1) having a housing (2) and a jet-splitting device (3) arranged or formed in the housing (2) for splitting an individual jet into a plurality of separate liquid components. The aerator (1) has at least two flow channels (4), which are oriented obliquely in such a way that the outlet directions (12) defined by the flow channels (4) meet each other. An insert part (5) is inserted into a hole (6) in the main body (28) ...