ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,439, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Refrigerant cycle apparatus" was invented by Natsuko Kitagawa (Osaka, Japan), Ryuuichi Toyota (Osaka, Japan), Kazunari Fukagawa (Osaka, Japan), Keiya Nagahara (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Kawano (Osaka, Japan), Makoto Inoue (Osaka, Japan) and Kevin Cornelis (Ostend, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerant cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit that circulates a refrigerant, and a leak sensor that detects a refrigerant leaking from the refrigerant circuit, in which the refrigerant cycle apparatus includes, as an operating mode, a recovery...