ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,021, issued on May 13, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Air conditioning system and method for controlling electrical energy of air conditioning system" was invented by Satoru Yanachi (Tokyo), So Nomoto (Tokyo), Kazuyoshi Shinozaki (Tokyo) and Yasushi Sato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioning system comprises one or more air conditioners through which refrigerant circulates, and a first controller. For each of one or more indoor units, a score corresponding to a cost of using the indoor unit is preset. The first controller calculates, for each of the one or more air conditioners, a first total ...