ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,145, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Air conditioner" was invented by Sungoug Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seonho Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner includes: a first heat exchanger disposed indoors; a second heat exchanger disposed outdoors and connected to the first heat exchanger; a water tank for accommodating water for generating steam; a filtering device for filtering indoor air; a first valve, which guides, to the water tank, the water for generating steam or guides, to the outdoors, remaining substances generated in the ...