ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,287, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Air conditioner" was invented by Hyoshik Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an air conditioner. An air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: an outdoor unit; a plurality of indoor units disposed to correspond to a plurality of regions, respectively; temperature sensors sensing indoor temperatures for the plurality of regions corresponding to the plurality of indoor units, respectively; and a controller, and the controller may group the plurality of indoor unit...