ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,152, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of controlling air conditioner through processing of clusters of indoor unit data" was invented by Changmin Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Soonyong Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jinsik Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyuntak Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungjun Lee (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 during a time period from when an indoor unit is ON to when the indoor unit is OFF, and correcting clusters based on changes in the clusters which are matched based ...