ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,849, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Air conditioner and method for controlling same" was invented by Beomchan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sungoh Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jusu Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyungsoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner comprises an outdoor unit including a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger; and an indoor unit connected to the outdoor unit by a gas pipe and a liquid pipe and having an indoor heat exchanger including a first coil and a second coil branched from the gas pipe and connec...