ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,799, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle air conditioning system and vehicle air conditioning method" was invented by Hirotaka Tanabe (Tokyo), Takayuki Kobayashi (Tokyo), Yasutaka Aoki (Tokyo), Tomoki Hase (Tokyo), Hideaki Tatenoi (Tokyo), Masayuki Sakai (Tokyo) and Michiaki Nakanishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle air conditioning system includes a refrigerant circuit, a heat medium circuit, a vehicle-interior heat exchanger, a vehicle-exterior heat exchanger including a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger disposed in series with respect ...