ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,618, issued on May 19.

"Faucet water purifier and filtering device for faucet water purifier" was invented by Jizong Hu (Yuyao, China), Zhenlin Chu (Yuyao, China) and Xiaozong Hu (Yuyao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided by the present invention is a faucet water purifier for filtering a raw water, which comprises a control valve and a filtering device, wherein the filtering device defines a first communicating opening and a second communicating opening, the control valve comprises a valve body and a valve core, wherein the valve body defines a valve cavity, a first opening, a second opening, a third opening, a raw water i...