ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,374, issued on July 22, was assigned to Carrier Japan Corp. (Tokyo).
"Air conditioner" was invented by Akira Iuchi (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 with two or more outdoor units and one or more indoor units, which are connected to a single refrigerant pipe in parallel, the air conditioner comprising a controller configured to determine, based on driving performance of the two or more outdoor units, a driving priority order of the two or more outdoor units. The controller switches the driving priority order of the two or more outdoor units between ...