ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,640, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Air conditioner" was invented by Yuji Sakano (Toyota, Japan), Shigeki Yoshida (Toyoake, Japan), Manabu Shirai (Nagoya, Japan) and Yusuke Ochiai (Kiyosu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner includes a housing having a first outlet and a second outlet, a first channel communicating with the first outlet, a second channel communicating with the second outlet, a sensible heat exchanger to exchange sensible heat between a first air flowing through the first channel and a second air flowing through the second channel, a first vaporization filte...