ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,014, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Outdoor unit of air conditioner" was invented by Junhee Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Siyoung Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Hyoungjune Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Siyoung Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jonghae Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Gwansoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kiyoon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunwook Bae (Seoul, South Korea) and Taegyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outdoor unit of an air conditioner may include a base panel, a front panel disposed on a front end of the base panel and having a through hole formed therein, an orif...