ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,158, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Indoor unit of air conditioner" was invented by Kidong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seokho Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Sunghyun Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Hakjae Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Pyo Sagong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indoor unit of an air conditioner, the indoor unit including a case having an outlet elongated in one direction; a first vane disposed at the outlet; a second vane disposed at the outlet at a position behind the first vane; a drive motor disposed on one side of the outlet and configured to provide a drivin...