ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,200, issued on May 12, was assigned to Parker-Hannifin Corp. (Cleveland).

"Lattice structure for sparging evaporator in catalytic inerting system" was invented by Daniel J. Henninger (Irvine, Calif.), Bryan D. Jensen (Buckeye, Ariz.), Daniel C. Massie (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Scott P. Auld-Hill (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sparging evaporator for an inerting system including an outer vessel, an inner vessel within the outer vessel, and a plenum formed between the inner and outer vessels. The outer vessel includes a gas inlet for receiving inlet gas into the plenum, and a liquid inlet for receiving liquid fuel in...