ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,922, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Refrigerant-containing composition, use of same, refrigerator having same, operation method for said refrigerator, and refrigeration cycle device equipped with same" was invented by Mitsushi Itano (Osaka, Japan), Shun Ohkubo (Osaka, Japan) and Daisuke Karube (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses a problem of providing a mixed refrigerant that combines three kinds of performances of having a refrigeration capacity (this may also be referred to as a cooling capacity) and of having a coefficient of performance (COP) equ...