ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,559, issued on July 29, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Air purifying filter" was invented by Jung Ryun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Jae Baeck (Seoul, South Korea), Ok Chun Hyun (Seoul, South Korea), Hyung Ho Park (Seoul, South Korea), Yang Hwa Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Chi Young Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is an air purifying filter. The air purifying filter includes a filtering layer (30) configured as a dielectric which collects minute particles, a first electrode layer (50) laminated on a side of the filtering layer (30) and comprising insulated wires (51) to w...