US Patent Issued to BAYER on Aug. 11 for "Spray unit with variable disc diameter" (German, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,997, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BAYER AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Spray unit with variable disc diameter" was invented by Malcolm Faers (Dusseldorf, Germany), Yoshitaka Sato (Tokyo) and Andrew Charles Chapple (Langenfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a spray unit comprising an axle (20), a disc (30), a disc shape modifying assembly (40) and a liquid applicator (50). The disc is configured to spin about the axle centred on the centre of the disc. The liquid applicator is configured to apply liquid to a surface of the disc. The disc shape modifying assembly is configured to modify the trajector...