ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,166, issued on June 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Coating nozzle" was invented by Gaku Kawabe (Tokyo) and Naoki Eto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating nozzle is provided. The coating nozzle includes: a chamber portion, communicated with a coating material supply portion; a supply surface, disposed on a side of the chamber portion; a discharge surface, disposed on other side of the chamber portion opposite to the supply surface and used to discharge the coating material; supply holes, annularly arranged on the supply surface with a first position as a center; discharge holes, arranged into at least one ...