ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,809, issued on March 3, was assigned to COWAY Co. Ltd. (Gongju-si, South Korea).

"Air purifier" was invented by Jun Hyoung Bae (Gongju-si, South Korea), Yu Young Nam (Gongju-si, South Korea), Ki Soo Kim (Gongju-si, South Korea) and Jae Hong Kim (Gongju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an air purifier and, more particularly, to an air purifier capable of introducing a filter support structure including a first body supporting a filter member and having a protruding part on a lower surface thereof, and a second body disposed at a lower portion of the first body and having a groove part ha...