ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,565, issued on April 7, was assigned to NORAM ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTORS LTD. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Spray gun with adjustable atomizer and removable nozzle body" was invented by Arie Vanmuyen (Vancouver, Canada), Neal Londry (Vancouver, Canada) and Robert Crane (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spray gun assembly for atomizing a liquid by directing flows of the liquid and a pressurized atomizing gas into an internal mixing chamber. The atomizing fluid is driven through narrow passages in a nozzle body, increasing the fluid's velocity before entering a mixing chamber in the nozzle body, where it breaks up the liqui...