ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,836, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of controlling total and individual refrigerant flow rates in an air conditioner" was invented by Changmin Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Soonyong Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Daewoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyuntak Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Changhwan Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an air conditioner including collecting indoor unit data of each of a plurality of indoor units connected to an outdoor unit; controlling a total flow rate of refrigerant supplied to the plurality of indoor units based on a ...