ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,921, issued on April 7, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Space purification device" was invented by Ikuma Shirai (Aichi, Japan), Yuki Mizuno (Aichi, Japan), Shinji Yoshida (Aichi, Japan) and Tomohiro Hayashi (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Space purification device according to the present disclosure includes hypochlorous acid water generator, mixing bath, hypochlorous acid water supply unit, water supply unit, humidifying purification unit, and control unit. Control unit is configured to, after a humidifying purification operation using the mixture water has finished, ...