ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,838, issued on July 15, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Air conditioner" was invented by Koji Miura (Kariya, Japan), Hiroaki Kawano (Kariya, Japan), Motohiro Yamaguchi (Kariya, Japan), Kazuya Taniguchi (Kariya, Japan), Yoshiki Kato (Kariya, Japan), Masamichi Makihara (Kariya, Japan), Takahiro Maeda (Kariya, Japan), Kuniyoshi Tanioka (Kariya, Japan), Toru Okamura (Kariya, Japan), Naoya Makimoto (Kariya, Japan), Atsushi Yamada (Kariya, Japan) and Kenta Kayano (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner includes a heat pump cycle, a heating unit, a low-temperature side heat medium circuit, and a heat d...