ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,275, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Humidifier" was invented by Yongmin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jeongtaek Park (Seoul, South Korea), Dongryul Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Chiyoung Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a humidifier. A humidifier of the present disclosure includes: a case having an inlet and a outlet with an open top; a humidification reservoir disposed inside the case, that produces mist and has an open top so that the produced mist rises therethrough; a guide wall disposed above the humidification reservoir, that is ...