ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,330, issued on March 11, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Dust collecting apparatus for electric precipitator" was invented by Ji-Yong Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Ki Hong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae Ho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dust collecting apparatus for an electric precipitator, capable of adsorbing and filtering fine dust contained in air in an air ventilation apparatus such as an air conditioner or an air purifier and, more specifically, to a dust collecting apparatus for an electric precipitator which is capable of improving manufacturability and dust collection p...