ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,204, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Air conditioner" was invented by Gahyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byungghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongho Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wooseog Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Mingi Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner including an arc shaped discharge port formed in a cylindrical member of a housing; a main fan; an arc shaped heat exchanger between the main fan and an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical member with respect to a radial direction of the cylindrical member; and an auxilia...