ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,146, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Adjustable venting system" was invented by Ivan France (Saratoga, Calif.), Jun Yeon Cho (San Jose, Calif.), Yufeng Wu (Mountain View, Calif.), William Augustus Workman (San Francisco), Eun Seo Cho (Mountain View, Calif.) and Stefan van der Hoff (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a computing device, a location of a source of air contamination associated with a heating element and determining, based at least on the location of the source of air contamination, at least one o...