ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,980, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Humidifier" was invented by Yongmin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaeheuk Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Dongryul Park (Seoul, South Korea), Chiyoung Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeonghoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a humidifier. The humidifier includes a heating water tank which heats water; a humidifying water tank which is connected to the heating water tank, and generates humidified air by using water supplied from the heating water tank; a connection pipe which sends water stored in the heating water t...