ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,399, issued on July 28, was assigned to HEALTHWAY HOME PRODUCTS COMPANY INC. (Pulaski, N.Y.).

"Sideload disinfecting modular filtration system" was invented by Timothy George Cusack (Central Square, N.Y.), Jacob Michael D'Anna (Fulton, N.Y.), Alexander Thomas Frechette (Mexico, N.Y.) and Xuchen Wang (Pulaski, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an array of connected disinfecting filter assembly modules arranged in a plane to filter air that passes through the array as the air flows along an airflow pathway through the array. Each module includes a housing that defines a first slot and a second slot, and a power cont...