ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,480, issued on June 24, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Ventilation assembly and ventilation housing" was invented by Daisuke Kitagawa (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Nakayama (Osaka, Japan), Akira Miyagaki (Osaka, Japan), Teppei Tezuka (Osaka, Japan), Youzou Yano (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoyuki Kasagi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilation assembly of the present disclosure includes: an internal member being a tubular body having an opening at a first end portion and an opening at a second end portion; a gas-permeable membrane covering the opening at the first end portion of the internal member; and an exte...