ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,741, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Cleaner" was invented by Bohyun Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Namhee Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jinju Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeonjeong An (Seoul, South Korea) and Jungbae Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaner includes: a suction unit; a suction motor that generates suction force for sucking air through the suction unit and includes an impeller; a dust separation unit that includes one or more cyclone units generating cyclonic flow to separate dust from air flowing inside through the suction unit; a dust container that stores...