ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,740, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Air conditioner, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Masakazu Sato (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Tada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner has a refrigeration cycle in which a refrigerant circulates through a compressor, an indoor heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and an outdoor heat exchanger which are connected by pipes. The air conditioner includes: an operation frequency detector configured to detect an operation frequency of the compressor; an operation time measurer configured to, based on t...