ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,293, issued on May 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Indoor unit for an air conditioner" was invented by Junseok Bae (Seoul, South Korea), Younggu Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hwanhak Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Kangyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Moonshin Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seongkuk Mun (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indoor unit for an air conditioner in which the water level of a steam generator is linked with the water level of a supply chamber for supplying water to the steam generator, and a supply floater, which is lowered or raised according to the water level of the su...