US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Sept. 16 for "Ventilation apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,419, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Ventilation apparatus" was invented by Janghee Park (Seoul, South Korea), Yongki Jeong (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinwoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilation apparatus includes a housing having an outdoor air inlet, an outdoor air outlet, an indoor air inlet, and an indoor air outlet; a partition dividing an inner space of the housing into a ventilation space and an air conditioning space; a total heat exchange element inside the ventilation space and having four side edges respectively disposed to face four side surface...