ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,429, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Dust collecting filter" was invented by Seungjae Baeck (Seoul, South Korea), Jungryun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Okchun Hyun (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyoseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a dust collecting filter. The dust collecting filter of the present invention may include a ground electrode unit bent in a corrugated shape to form a plurality of bent portions and a plurality of flat portions between each of the plurality of bent portions, and grounded; and a plurality of voltage electrode units...