US Patent Issued to LG Electronics, PUSAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION, CHANGWON NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION CORPS on Sept. 1 for "Refrigerant leak detector and air conditioner including refrigerant leak detector" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,770, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea), PUSAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Busan, South Korea) and CHANGWON NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION CORPS (Changwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerant leak detector and air conditioner including refrigerant leak detector" was invented by Changhwan Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Junggeun Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Sangyoung Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Manyeong Ha (Busan, South Korea), Sanghu Park (Busan, South Korea) and Jaesun Lee (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerant leak detector...