US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Dec. 16 for "Air-conditioning system, management device, air conditioner, sensor data acquisition method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,133, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Air-conditioning system, management device, air conditioner, sensor data acquisition method, and recording medium" was invented by Hiroaki Kotake (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Endo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centralized management device includes a sensor data acquirer and an acquisition cycle changer. The sensor data acquirer acquires periodically, by communication, from each of one or more outdoor units, sensor data including measurement results of one or more sensors included by the outdoor unit. When a sign of malfunction is detected in any of the outd...