US Patent Issued to Ford Motor on March 31 for "Ultrasonic atomizer with acoustic focusing device" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,405, issued on March 31, was assigned to Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Ultrasonic atomizer with acoustic focusing device" was invented by Wanjiao Liu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kevin Richard John Ellwood (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mark Edward Nichols (Saline, Mich.) and Christopher Michael Seubert (New Hudson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atomizer for applying a coating includes a nozzle plate, an actuator, and an acoustic focusing device. The nozzle plate defines at least one aperture. The actuator is configured to oscillate to form pressure waves within a fluid to eject the fluid from the nozzle plate. The acoustic focusing devi...