ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,656, issued on June 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Refrigeration cycle device" was invented by Satoshi Suzuki (Kariya, Japan), Satoshi Itoh (Kariya, Japan), Takuya Mitsuhashi (Kariya, Japan) and Atsushi Yamada (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration cycle device includes: a compressor; a heat radiating unit that causes refrigerant to heat air supplied to a space inside a vehicle cabin; a decompression unit that decompresses the refrigerant; an outside air heat absorbing unit that causes the refrigerant to absorb heat from outside air; a waste heat absorbing unit that causes the refrigerant to ...