ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,938, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to RASA INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo), GX ENERGY LTD. (Tokyo) and KIMURA CHEMICAL PLANTS Co. LTD. (Amagasaki, Japan).

"Mixing nozzle and contaminated gas purification device using mixing nozzle" was invented by Tadashi Narabayashi (Tokyo), Hiroshige Kikura (Tokyo), Hideharu Takahashi (Tokyo), Katsumasa Araoka (Tokyo), Koji Endo (Tokyo) and Tomohiko Yoshii (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The mixing nozzle has a throat section, a diffuser section, a gas nozzle section, a first liquid suction port, a liquid nozzle section, a second liquid suction port, a baffle plate, and a jetting port. The...