ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,355, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Toyo Seikan Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Discharge apparatus and unmanned aircraft" was invented by Atsushi Kominami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Souji Araki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a discharge apparatus to which an aerosol container can be detachably mounted, the discharge apparatus including: a pressing unit configured to press a stem for opening and closing a valve of the aerosol container; and a buffer unit configured to buffer excess force, which is an amount of force by which force with which the pressing unit presses the stem has exceeded force to open the valve. The b...