ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,466, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Sterilization apparatus and home appliance comprising same" was invented by Jongwook Joo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngchul Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donghyo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myungju Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunmin Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jegu Mun (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jingam Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Sunyoung Choi (Gwangju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterilizing apparatus and a home appliance comprising the same are provided. The sterilizing apparatus may include: a lamp body c...