ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,314, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to UR FOG S.R.L. (Turin, Italy).

"Safety systems for battery-supplied fogging device" was invented by Mauro Lombardo (Turin, Italy), Giovanni Balestrini (Turin, Italy) and Marco Zangirolami (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety system for a battery-powered fog generator is described, designed to operate on a vaporization coil (2) of a fogging fluid; the safety system includes: a fuse wire (1), each placed at one end of the coil (2), suitable for heating both due to a Joule effect and through heat coming from the coil (2) by thermal conduction, the fusible wire (1) being therefore...