ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,737, issued on May 20, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Power transforming apparatus and air conditioner including the same" was invented by Phillsik Gong (Seoul, South Korea), Songhee Yang (Seoul, South Korea), Jeongeon Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Sanghyeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a power transforming apparatus capable of reducing a stress of a converter switch during a PFC operation, an operation method thereof, and an air conditioner including the same. To this end, the power transforming apparatus according to the present disclosure may dete...