ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,401, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Spraying Systems Co. (Wheaton, Ill.).

"Liquid dispensing spray nozzle assembly for rapidly producing small sized droplets of highly viscous liquids" was invented by Thomas L. Coplin (Lake in the Hill, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular liquid distribution system in which each module has a module body, a spray nozzle, and a cyclically operable piston for controlling the dispensing of high viscous liquids from the spray nozzle. Each spray nozzle has a nozzle body with a liquid inlet and a tear dropped shaped pintle which together with the nozzle body defines an expansion chamber that r...