ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,149, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Air conditioner" was invented by Yongho Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Doyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wooseog Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wonhee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner includes a heat exchanger, a fan and a fan case in which the fan is accommodated. The fan case includes an inlet opening through which air sucked by the fan enters the fan and an outlet opening through which the air that entered the fan is blown by the fan to be discharged from the fan case. An air guide is spac...