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Article: Oregon Inventor Develops Self-Powered, Wearable Personal Air Purifier
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 11, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- William S. Lovell of Lincoln City, Ore., has developed a self-powered, wearable personal air purifier.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-powered, personally wearable air purifier includes a sequence of packed bed filter media packets having filter media therein of specifically targeted types that will absorb those ambient air pollutants that have been identified as being particularly dangerous to human health."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "A high-efficiency particulate air filter is included for the removal of particulate matter that will have adhered thereto many of such pollutants. Media types ...