US Patent Issued on June 23 for "Pepper spray dispensing systems and devices and methods of use" (Arkansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,301, issued on June 23.

"Pepper spray dispensing systems and devices and methods of use" was invented by Louis F. Riley (Conway, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dispensing systems, dispensers, and methods for dispensing a pepper spray or other irritant from a container. Such dispensers include a cap, a nozzle within the cap so as to be translatable relative to the cap, an actuator within the cap so as to be translatable relative to the cap and relative to the nozzle, and a biasing member that urges the actuator and nozzle apart. The nozzle is configured to attach to a valve stem of a canister and has a passageway through which th...