ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,081, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vacuum cleaner and method for controlling same" was invented by Han Su Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Seok Hee Cho (Seoul, South Korea) and Soong Keun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vacuum cleaner including a motor configured to generate a suction force, an inverter configured to convert a DC power of a DC terminal capacitor into an AC power to output to the motor, and a controller configured to apply a control signal of the inverter to drive the motor, in which the controller is further configured to detect an event w...