ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,856, issued on March 3, was assigned to Guangdong SunRise Industrial Co. Ltd. (Dongguan, China).

"Spray head" was invented by Wei Zhou (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spray head includes a housing, a cap, a filter cartridge, and a panel assembly. The housing defines an inlet port. The cap is detachably connected to the housing. The housing and the cap cooperatively define a filter chamber. The filter cartridge is disposed in the filter chamber and includes an inlet end and an outlet end. Unfiltered water enters the filter cartridge sequentially through the inlet port and the inlet end, and filtered water exits the f...