ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,836, issued on July 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Air-conditioning apparatus, and air discharge method for air-conditioning apparatus" was invented by Kazuya Honda (Tokyo), Naofumi Takenaka (Tokyo), Yuji Motomura (Tokyo), Kimitaka Kadowaki (Tokyo), Koji Furuya (Tokyo) and Hiroki Washiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The heat-medium cycle circuit includes a discharge mechanism including a discharge valve, the discharge mechanism being configured to, when the discharge valve is open, discharge air present inside the heat-medium cycle circuit to the outside of the heat-medium cycle circuit. The air-co...