US Patent Issued to CONOPCO on June 30 for "Spray dispenser" (British, Canadian, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,858, issued on June 30, was assigned to CONOPCO INC. (Hoboken, N.J.).

"Spray dispenser" was invented by Andrew Robert Aitken (Hamilton, Canada), Sebastian Alvarez (Follifoot, Great Britain), Sjoerd Paul Hoijinck (Tilburg, Netherlands), Eduardo Carvalhal Lage Von Buettner Ristow (London) and Guy Richard Thompson (Parkgate, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand held spray dispenser in which air and liquid are pressurised towards a mixing chamber by energy generated by a manual activation element that is rotated with a unidirectional twist to energise one or more energy storage bodies, energy from which is released to gene...