ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,749, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Air conditioner" was invented by Atsushi Yamada (Kariya, Japan), Kazuhiro Tada (Kariya, Japan) and Masaki Harada (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner includes: a heat pump cycle including a compressor, a heating part and a low-temperature side water-refrigerant heat exchanger; a heat medium circuit; and a blower. In the air conditioner, when a heating capability of the heating part is increased by using the heat generated by the heat generating part, a heating preparation control is executed, in which a refrigerant discharge capability o...