ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,481, issued on April 14, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).

"Smart air ionizer" was invented by Hemanth Raghav Gajendra (Bangalore, India), Srinivas Magaji Gundu (Bangalore, India), Skandan Berikai Kuppan (Bangalore, India), Matthew R. Pearson (Hartford, Conn.), Shashikiran Soodlu (Bangalore, India) and Ashwin Rajamony (Belgaum, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart air ionizer is disclosed herein. The smart air ionizer includes a power circuit, a high voltage circuit, an electrode coupled to the high voltage circuit, the electrode configured to ionize air surrounding the electrode, and a controller cir...