ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,486, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Zero Food Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Evaporation heater" was invented by Masato Kino (Ashiya, Japan) and Shigeru Miyatani (Ashiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An evaporation heater arranged in a constant-temperature high-humidity storage, the evaporation heater includes a water storage tank arranged in a lower part of an enclosure of the evaporation heater; a temperature regulator configured to set water stored in the water storage tank to a target temperature; and an air blowing mechanism which is arranged in front in an air-blowing direction with respect to the water storage tank and which i...