ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,616, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Water purifying filter assembly" was invented by Wanku Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sanggyu Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junggeun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sungpil Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water purifying filter assembly including a filter case including a receiving member having a protrusion; and a head assembly. The protrusion may be configured to be receivable in a recessed portion on an outer circumferential surface of a filter so that when the filter is placed in the receiving member with the p...