ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,753, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai (Guangdong, China).

"Ducted type air conditioner" was invented by Shaojun Ding (Guangdong, China), Xiaolong Chi (Guangdong, China) and Yifan Zhang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ducted type air conditioner provided by the present disclosure, including a shell, an air opening being formed in the shell; a fan, rotatably arranged in the shell; and a water-receiving disk, arranged in the shell and located between the fan and the air opening; in the case that the air opening serves as an air inlet, the orientation of an air-absorbing openin...