ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,785, issued on June 2, was assigned to COWAY Co. LTD. (Gongju-si, South Korea).

"Water purifier" was invented by Seong Min Park (Gongju-si, South Korea) and Hee Do Jung (Gongju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a water purifier characterized by including: a purified water supply unit for supplying purified water produced by filtering raw water; a hot water generation unit for generating hot water by heating the purified water supplied from the purified water supply unit; a hot water discharge unit for discharging the hot water generated by the hot water generation unit to the outside; and ...