ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,667, issued on April 21, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Filter assembly and foldable filter bank" was invented by Chrystal Jolliffe (London, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable filter bank and a filter assembly for a filter cabinet is disclosed. The filter cabinet is adapted to accommodate and hold the filter bank in a deployed state. The filter assembly comprises a foldable filter bank comprising a plurality of filter-media packs, where adjacent filter-media packs among the plurality of filter-media packs are hingedly coupled to each other using at least one coupling element, where the filter ...