ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,685, issued on March 17, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrolytic water spraying device" was invented by Fumiaki Asai (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolytic water spraying device (100, 100A) according to the present disclosure includes: a reservoir (14) that stores water; a dispensing timing controller (320) that controls a dispensing timing that is a timing at which an electrolysis-accelerating agent is to be dispensed into the reservoir (14); a dispensing amount controller (310) that controls a dispensing amount that is an amount of the electrolysis-acc...