ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,013, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Air conditioning indoor unit and air conditioner" was invented by Junya Minami (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioning indoor unit that blows air, which has exchanged heat with a refrigerant flowing through a heat exchanger, into an air conditioning target space, includes: a liquid refrigerant pipe and a gas refrigerant pipe that are connected to the heat exchanger; a casing that accommodates the heat exchanger and that has an opening communicating with the air conditioning target space; a first shutoff valve in the liquid refrige...