ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,530, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ECLIPSE VENTURE LLC (Lewes, Del.).

"Battery powered air-atomizing electrostatic spray system with grounding tether" was invented by Steven Craig Cooper (Athens, Ga.), John Daniel Stevens (Oxford, Ga.) and Dae-Woong Kim (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spray system includes a spray device with a housing enclosing an electrostatic power supply that generates an electrostatic charging voltage and a nozzle assembly including a liquid tip that receives a spray liquid and an air stream and emits an atomized spray and an electrode coupled to receive the electrostatic charging voltage and...