US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 20 for "Air purifier and method of purifying air" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,048, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Air purifier and method of purifying air" was invented by Dongwook Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinkyu Kang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Joonseon Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Hyoungwoo Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hyun Chul Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air purifier includes a hollow reactor extending in one direction, a discharge plasma generator including a first electrode disposed on an outer wall of the reactor and a second electrode which is disposed inside the reactor and generates discharge p...