ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,010, issued on March 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Effective component generation device" 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 components, case, and air passage member. Air passage member is housed in case and surrounds discharger. Air blower of internal components generates air flow that outputs an effective component to the outside. Air passage member has upstream block and downstream block. U...