ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,183, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MICROJET TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Air pollution prevention system" was invented by Hao-Jan Mou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Lung Han (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Feng Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chin-Chuan Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air pollution prevention system is disclosed and includes at least one detection and processing device and at least one cleaning device. The detection and processing device includes a nano actuator, a nano photodetector, a carbon nanotube and a microprocessor, which are integrated as a single chip device through semiconductor manufacturi...