ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,266, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Air conditioner for vehicle" was invented by Tae Yeong Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Chan Joo Maeng (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ji Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle air conditioning device includes an air conditioning case having a plurality of air discharge ports, a cooling heat exchanger and a heating heat exchanger sequentially formed in an air flow path of the air conditioning case, wherein the air discharge ports each have a face vent composed of the center vent and the side vents, a left-right temperature difference ...