ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,587, issued on March 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Filter and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Dong Ho Kwon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Gee Young Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myung Hoe Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Sik Han (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seung Hwan Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Geun Han (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin Mo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter manufacturing method includes: folding a filter media up and down and forming a wrinkle shape c...