ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,493, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Air cleaner" was invented by Jiug Ha (Seoul, South Korea), Kangeui Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Sungkyong Han (Seoul, South Korea), Sehwan Bae (Seoul, South Korea) and Myungwhoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application proposes an air cleaner including a blower configured to inhale air from an outside, filter the inhaled air, and discharge the filtered air; a flow adjusting device disposed above the blower, wherein the flow adjusting device is configured to inhale the air discharged from the blower, adjust a discharg...