ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,333, issued on June 24, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BEIJING SMARTMI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Negative ion generating device and air purifier" was invented by Kenan Zhu (Beijing), Lei Jia (Beijing) and Guang Xi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a negative ion generating device and an air purifier. The negative ion generating device includes a housing, a negative ion assembly, and a cleaning assembly. The negative ion assembly is arranged to the housing, and the negative ion assembly includes a conductive fiber brush. The cleaning assembly is arran...