US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Feb. 17 for "Swirling flow-blurring atomizer" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,604, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Swirling flow-blurring atomizer" was invented by Steven G Tuttle (Brandywine, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atomizer includes an endcap having a nozzle; an annular sidewall extending outward from a surface of the endcap and situated radially outward from the nozzle; and a plurality of vanes extending radially inward from the sidewall and axially outward from the endcap, the vanes being set at a non-zero angle of incidence to the sidewall. The annular sidewall and endcap define ...