ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,835, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Ventilation apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Donggyu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehyoung Sim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyunghoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunggoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeongjoon Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eomji Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilation apparatus includes: a housing including a first inlet through which outside air is sucked, a second inlet through which room air is sucked, a first outlet through which air is supplied to an indoor space, a...