ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,281, issued on July 7, was assigned to COWAY Co. LTD. (Gongju-si, South Korea).

"Water purifier" was invented by Hyoungmin Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Doo Won Han (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Han Yun (Seoul, South Korea) and Won Tae Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water purifier comprises: an RO filter comprising a non-filtering unit, a filtering unit for discharging purified water, and a reverse osmosis membrane for partitioning the non-filtering unit and the filtering unit and for purifying the raw water; a raw water storage unit; a purified water storage unit; a water storage tank comprising a separator membra...