ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,279, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Rimports LLC (Provo, Utah).

"Fragrance dispenser" was invented by Alan K. Farrell (Salt Lake City), Joe Robinson (Lehi, Utah) and Clark Kalmar (Saratoga Springs, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fragrance dispensers with features that are capable of reducing wastage of fragrance, or of conserving fragrance, are disclosed. Such a fragrance dispenser may have a configuration that collects fragrance that is expelled from the fragrance dispenser, but has not vaporized or atomized sufficiently to dissipate into the environment, as well as fragrance that condenses immediately after it has been exp...