ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,211, issued on June 16, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Coating material supply device and coating machine" was invented by Kuniharu Yamauchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The coating material supply device has a coating material supply channel for supplying coating material and capable of cleaning at least the coating material supply channel by sending a cleaning liquid and cleaning air into the coating material supply channel. The device has a cleaning liquid supply unit for supplying the cleaning liquid to the coating material supply channel. The device includes a bubble generator for generating fine ...