ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,661, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Air-conditioning apparatus" was invented by Kazuya Honda (Tokyo), Naofumi Takenaka (Tokyo), Jumpei Takagi (Tokyo), Masafumi Tomita (Tokyo) and Mizuo Sakai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-conditioning apparatus includes configured to, when a cooling operation mode is changed into one of multiple dehumidifying operation modes, select the one of the multiple dehumidifying operation modes on the basis of a value of a sensible heat ratio difference triangleSHF that is a difference between a target sensible heat ratio acquired from an indoor temperatur...