ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,983, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Air conditioner and control method thereof" was invented by Jaekil Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chiwook Gu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jun Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangwoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Eunseob Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungmi Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehyuk Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyoshin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyoungseo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner is configured to perform a drying operation to remove moisture inside a main body in response to the ter...