ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,264, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PHC HOLDINGS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Refrigeration circuit and refrigeration device" was invented by Takashi Toyooka (Saitama, Japan) and Minoru Suto (Gunma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration circuit includes: a gas-liquid separator into which a gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flowed out from a condenser flows, the gas-liquid separator being configured to separate the gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant into a vapor phase refrigerant and a liquid phase refrigerant; and a plate heat exchanger including a first heat exchanging part and a second heat exchanging part, the first heat exch...