ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,707, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Vehicular air conditioning system" was invented by Seo Jun Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Ki Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Yong Sik Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Chang Sun Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Cheol Han Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular air conditioning system includes an intake case having an indoor air inlet for introducing an indoor air present in a vehicle interior and an outdoor air inlet for introducing an outdoor air present outside a vehicle, an intake door installe...