ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,004, issued on June 16, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Activation device and odor removal device including same" was invented by Tae Ho Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Yeongtak Song (Seoul, South Korea) and Jongbong Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an activation device. The activation device, which serves as a device coming into contact with an object to activate surrounding materials according to a dielectric barrier discharge principle, includes: a dielectric having a predetermined...