ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,355, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Duct mounted filtering apparatus" was invented by Chrystal Jolliffe (London, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air cleaning device is provided including a unit base, at least one support member coupled to the unit base, and a plurality of panels mounted to the at least one support member. At least one of the plurality of panels includes a filtering substrate. The air cleaning device is transformable between a retracted configuration and a deployed configuration. In the deployed configuration, the plurality of panels are separated from one another ...