ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,204, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Malmesbury, Great Britain).

"Wearable air purifier" was invented by Stephen Benjamin Courtney (Gloucester, Great Britain), James Mackey Nelson (Gloucester, Great Britain) and Matthew Jerome Jennings (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a head wearable air purifier comprising a first speaker assembly and a second speaker assembly, wherein the first speaker assembly comprises a filter assembly, an impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, a motor arranged to drive the impeller, and an air outlet downstream from the filt...