ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,657, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Air conditioner" was invented by Dong Yoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Do-Hoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joon-Ho Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chul Ju Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jun Woo Kim (Ansan-si, South Korea), Bu Youn Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jung Dae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung-June Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an air conditioner, a drain extraction unit and a refrigerant pipe connecting unit may be disposed in a blocking region in which a discharge port is not provided so that a size of...