ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,368, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Fluid sterilizing apparatus" was invented by Hideaki Tanaka (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kato (Tokyo) and Kazuhisa Shinno (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid sterilizing apparatus includes: a cylindrical inner pipe which has cutouts penetrating in a radial direction and an outlet pipe projecting in the radial direction; an outer pipe which has, between itself and the inner pipe, an annular space in communication with the cutouts and which houses the inner pipe; an inflow pipe which allows a fluid to flow into the outer pipe; an outflow pipe which is provided c...