ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,976, issued on July 21, was assigned to SUGINO MACHINE Ltd. (Namerikawa City, Japan).

"Wet atomizer" was invented by Yuuya Yamada (Namerikawa City, Japan), Keiichi Katayama (Namerikawa City, Japan) and Masashi Tsunemoto (Namerikawa City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a wet atomizer capable of stably increasing a pressure in a pressurizing chamber and performing highly reproducible raw material process. A wet atomizer includes a motor; a power transmission device that converts a rotational motion of the motor into a reciprocating motion; a high-pressure cylinder; a plunger that reciprocates inside the high-pressure ...