ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,415, issued on March 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Effective component generation device and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Motoji Kawasaki (Shiga, Japan), Kouiti Hirai (Shiga, Japan), Mikio Ito (Shiga, Japan) and Yutaka Uratani (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Effective component generation device includes internal component and case. Internal components include discharger that generates an effective component. Case is formed in a box shape having discharge port through which an effective component is discharged, and houses internal components. C...