ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,563, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid spray nozzle and liquid spray device" was invented by Osamu Katsuda (Matsumoto, Japan), Kaname Nagatani (Matsumoto, Japan), Takahiro Matsuzaki (Shiojiri, Japan), Yasunori Onishi (Shiojiri, Japan) and Tomoki Abe (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid spray nozzle includes a nozzle hole configured to spray a liquid toward an object, a liquid flow channel communicated with the nozzle hole, and a filter disposed in the liquid flow channel, wherein at least one of a part of the filter and a part of the liquid flow channel from the filter to the...