ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,383, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Ventilation system with cleaning mode and method for controlling the same" was invented by Donggyu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyunghoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunggoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seonuk Na (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeongjoon Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehyoung Sim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eomji Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilation system including a ventilator; and an outdoor unit, wherein the ventilator includes a housing including a first intake, a second intake, a first o...