US Patent Issued to UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS on Sept. 16 for "Steam effect nozzle for entertainment venue" (Florida, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,191, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Steam effect nozzle for entertainment venue" was invented by Christopher Erickson (Mendham, N.J.) and David Gerard Majdali (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steam effect nozzle includes a housing section configured to receive a fluid having a mixture of steam and liquid condensate and baffles disposed in the housing section. The baffles are configured to separate the steam of the fluid from the liquid condensate of the fluid, enable the steam to travel from a first end wall of the housing section to a second end wall of the h...