ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,591, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Dust collection filter and dust collection filter manufacturing method" was invented by Minjae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Okchun Hyun (Seoul, South Korea), Jungryun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungjae Baeck (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a dust collecting filter and a method for manufacturing a dust collecting filter. The dust collecting filter of the present invention may comprise: a filter medium collecting foreign substances in the air; a plurality of first conductive threads sewn to the filter ...