ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,341, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Wiltshire, Great Britain).
"Air treatment apparatus" was invented by George Oram (Gloucester, Great Britain), Barnaby Nicholas Main (Swindon, Great Britain), Steven Eduard Peet (Bristol, Great Britain) and Graham Mansfield (Gloucester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an air treatment apparatus comprising an evaporative humidifier comprising an evaporator assembly. The evaporator assembly comprises at least one evaporative element that comprises anti-bacterial fibres, wherein the anti-bacterial fibres comprise metallic silver."
The patent wa...