ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,012, issued on July 22, was assigned to TECH SONIC LP (St. Albert, Canada).
"Apparatus for cleaning industrial components" was invented by William Lash Phillips (Medicine Hat, Canada), Shawn Smith (Fort McMurray, Canada) and Byron Kieser (Beeton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for cleaning industrial components has a liquid container defining a liquid enclosure for containing a cleaning liquid and ultrasonic transducers having an operating frequency and a wavelength in the cleaning liquid and secured to at least a portion of the liquid container at a spacing of between 2 and 10 wavelengths. In operation, the trans...