ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,120, issued on June 16, was assigned to BISSELL Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Filtered media basket for air purifier" was invented by Derek Smith (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Habib Baydoun (Dearborn Heights, Mich.) and Bryan Todd Jones (Holland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media basket assembly for use with an air purifier, such as but not necessarily limited to media basket assembly suitable for use with a vertical airflow type of air purifier. The media basket assembly may include a filter media configured to filter the airflow and a basket for positioning the filter media relative to a lower fan shroud of the air purifier."

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