ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,431, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Aero Pump GmbH (Hochheim/Main, Germany).

"Multi-jet nozzle body" was invented by Milena Angelika Marszalek (Mainz, Germany), Andreas Mersmann (Hochheim/Main, Germany) and Sebastian Rother (Mainz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a multi-jet nozzle body from a nozzle body blank produced by an injection molding or an additive manufacturing process, and a multi-jet nozzle body. The nozzle body blank defines a fluid chamber and is provided with at least two nozzle geometries having respective axes arranged to extend in a discharge direction and to intersect at a point o...