ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,400, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NEOPERL GMBH (Mullheim, Germany).
"Aerator for generating an aerated liquid stream" was invented by Holger Schurle (Mullheim, Germany), Wladimir Weiss (Gottenheim, Germany) and Wolf-Dieter Lacher (Mullheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A jet regulator (1) for use in a sanitary outflow fitting. The jet regulator (1) has a housing (2), a jet accelerator device (3), and a jet aeration device (5) which is mounted downstream of the jet accelerator device (3) in a flow direction (4). The stream aerating device (5) has a chamber (6) that has at least one aeration opening (7) through which air ...