ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,964, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Nordson Corp. (Westlake, Ohio).

"Metering distribution assembly and coating system comprising the same" was invented by Peter Qiu (Shanghai) and William Zheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metering distribution assembly and a coating system. The metering distribution assembly includes a volumetric cavity pump that comprises a flow passage plate having flow passages, a nozzle plate with a flow passage, a gear fixing plate attached between the flow passage plate and the nozzle plate, and a gear set located in an aperture of the fixing plate. The gear set has a fluid inlet and a fluid...