ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,739, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Air conditioner" was invented by Junghyeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Chanseung Park (Seoul, South Korea), Suhyeon Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Geunyoung Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Sooyeon Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner includes an electrostatic dust collector configured to remove foreign matter from air introduced into an inlet of a housing, wherein the electrostatic dust collector includes: at least one electrostatic filter configured to filter foreign matter from air and including a first side wall and a se...