ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,535, issued on June 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Air-conditioning apparatus" was invented by Shunji Ueda (Tokyo) and Kota Nagano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-conditioning apparatus includes: a refrigerant circuit; a casing configured to accommodate therein a heat exchanger and an internal refrigerant pipe, the heat exchanger and the internal refrigerant pipe each forming a part of the refrigerant circuit; a refrigerant pipe connection portion; an opening port formed on the casing, and configured to allow an interior of the casing to communicate with an exterior of the casing; a cover portion c...