ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,179, issued on March 17, was assigned to CLEAN TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Virus removal device" was invented by Toshio Awaji (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virus removal device providing a high virus removal probability, a small pressure loss of a flowing gas, and miniaturization with respect to an amount of air to be treated, by adopting a wet mechanism for removing a virus from a gas, the virus removal device includes a cylindrical treatment room to introduce a gas and remove a virus, a catcher formed of a rotary brush, installed in the treatment room and configured to collect the virus contained in the g...