ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,728, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Water purifier and control method of same" was invented by Jungha Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungpil Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junggeun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water purifier comprising a pre-treatment filter connectable to an inlet flow path; an auxiliary filter including a filter cap and a filter body, connectable to a first connection flow path; a membrane filter including a filter cap and a filter body, so that water discharged from the auxiliary filter is...