ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,017, issued on May 13, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Air-conditioning apparatus" was invented by Kohei Najima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The air-conditioning apparatus includes: a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, the expansion valve, and an indoor heat exchanger are connected by pipes; and a controller. The controller includes a valve opening-degree adjusting module, a flow-rate determination module, and a clogging determination module."
The patent was filed on July 13, 2020, under Application No. 17/918,935.
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