ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,501, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Hot-water supply and heating system" was invented by Takenori Matsumoto (Tokyo), Naoto Ishii (Tokyo), Tsukine Matsugami (Tokyo) and Kimitaka Kadowaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-water supply and heating system includes: a first pump that circulates a first heat medium between a heat source unit and a heat-medium heat exchanger; a second pump that causes a second heat medium to flow between a load-side device and the heat-medium heat exchanger; a first temperature sensor that detects a primary fluid temperature that is a temperature of the firs...