ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,192, issued on June 17, was assigned to STI Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"POD cleaning device" was invented by Young Soo Park (Anseong-si, South Korea), Dong Geun Hur (Anseong-si, South Korea) and Ki Man Lee (Anseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is A POD cleaning apparatus including: a separate unit separating a POD introduced through an introducing inlet; a first transportation unit transporting a separation POD resulting from the separation in the separation unit; a plurality of cleaning chambers in each of which the separation POD transported by the first transportation unit is cleaned and dried;...