ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,609, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PATRICK CHARLES PTY LTD (Belrose, Australia).
"Aerator" was invented by John Patrick O'Loughlin (Belrose, Australia) and John Charles Rasmus (Belrose, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerator has a submersible mixing tube having a water inlet and an aerated water outlet. An aspirating tube penetrates the mixing tube between the water inlet and the aerated water outlet, the aspirating tube having an air outlet introducing air into the mixing tube and an air inlet drawing in air from atmosphere above a water surface. The mixing tube has an outboard motor lower unit engagement to engage...