ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,193, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to THE SALFORD VALVE COMPANY Ltd. (Yorkshire, Great Britain).

"Fluid dispensing" was invented by Ghasem Ghavami-Nasr (York, Great Britain) and Peter Shaw (York, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid dispensing apparatus includes a housing member inner wall partly surrounding an inner chamber region, an inner fluid port in fluid communication with an open region; a fluid communication passageway disposed outside the inner chamber region and in fluid communication with the open region; a wall fluid port fluidly connecting a fluid communication region and the inner chamber region; an...