ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,141, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Liquid refrigerant sprayer and falling liquid film type evaporator" was invented by Kou Terai (Osaka, Japan), Mitsuharu Numata (Osaka, Japan), Yutaka Shibata (Osaka, Japan) and Hirokazu Fujino (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid refrigerant distributor is used for a falling liquid film evaporator. The liquid refrigerant distributor includes a gas-liquid two-phase pipe through which a gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flows, and a first refrigerant tub including a liquid reservoir section into which the gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flows...