ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,955, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to King Technology Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Dispenser" was invented by Joseph King (Wayzata, Minn.), Jeffrey Johnson (Edina, Minn.), Paul Freeberg (South St. Paul, Minn.), David Guy (Maple Grove, Minn.), Terry Goeman (Minnetonka, Minn.), Lyle Enderson (Anoka, Minn.) and Randy Roseth (Chanhassen, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, a cartridge and a dispensing valve for eliminating a drift or sag in BCDMH output from an inline dispensing valve containing a dispensing cartridge mountable within the inline dispensing valve with the dispensing cartridge containing a batch of water erodibl...