ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,549, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Air conditioner" was invented by Atsushi Yoshimi (Osaka, Japan), Takuro Yamada (Osaka, Japan), Eiji Kumakura (Osaka, Japan), Ikuhiro Iwata (Osaka, Japan) and Takeru Miyazaki (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner includes an ejector that raises a pressure of refrigerant by using energy for refrigerant decompression and expansion. A switching mechanism switches between a refrigerant flow in a first operation and a refrigerant flow in a second operation. The air conditioner is configured such that in the first operation, refrigerant...