ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,992, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Spray device, spray method, and mist space staging system" was invented by Kota Kimura (Saitama, Japan), Yosuke Kobayashi (Saitama, Japan), Takeshi Ogata (Tokyo) and Osamu Ogawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spray device (A) according to the present disclosure includes: a two-fluid nozzle (11) which sprays a mist (91); a spray-device-side gas flow path (12) for supplying a gas to the two-fluid nozzle (11); a gas supply source (17) which supplies the gas to the spray-device-side gas flow path (12); a spray-devi...