ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,084, issued on March 3, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).
"Air purifier" was invented by Masato Ono (Sagamihara, Japan) and Masayoshi Katsuno (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air purifier includes a substantially L-shaped support member including a bottom portion and a lateral portion, a substrate disposed on the bottom portion, a light source that is disposed on the substrate and can emit ultraviolet light, a heat sink disposed on the lateral portion and including heat dissipation fins, a substantially L-shaped heat pipe at least partially housed in a recess formed in the support member, and a cover cover...