ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,564, issued on April 8, was assigned to Carrier Japan Corp. (Tokyo).

"Air conditioner" was invented by Yuji Inada (Fuji, Japan) and Ken Miura (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an air conditioner includes an outdoor unit including a control unit which controls an operation of a compressor, an expansion valve kit, at least one air-handling unit, and a controller. The control unit or the controller adjusts, when a parameter value indicating a change in temperature of air blown out of an indoor fan or a parameter value indicating a change in temperature of air sucked by the indoor fan is not within ...