US Patent Issued to FELLOWES on Nov. 3 for "Low profile air purifier" (Illinois, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,981, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FELLOWES INC. (Itasca, Ill.).

"Low profile air purifier" was invented by Peter M. Maletich (Vancouver, Wash.), James Edward Losser (St. Charles, Ill.), John S. Boyadjian (Mount Prospect, Ill.) and Tai Hoon K. Matlin (Round Lake Beach, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-profile air purifier comprises a housing that includes a pair of plates opposing one another, an intake opening and an output opening; a toroidal fan rotatably mounted in the housing between the plates, an axis of the toroidal fan being essentially perpendicular to the plates; a motor disposed in a central opening of the tor...