ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,505, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Air cleaner" was invented by Jongsu Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Juhyup Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Dongryul Park (Seoul, South Korea), Nuree Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Yeonghyeon Gim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air purifier is disclosed. The air purifier includes a case having a suction port formed at a peripheral wall, an upper side of which is open; a discharge cover having a discharge port open upward, which is disposed at the open upper side of the case; a fan that is disposed inside of the case and forms a flow of air from...