ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,118, issued on April 29, was assigned to YAZAKI ENERGY SYSTEM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Air-conditioning panel" was invented by Takuju Nakamura (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-conditioning panel includes: a regenerative absorber having an absorbent liquid that absorbs a vapor refrigerant or an adsorbent agent that adsorbs the vapor refrigerant and discharging the vapor refrigerant absorbed by heating with sunlight; a condenser configured to liquefy the vapor refrigerant discharged from the regenerative absorber into a liquid refrigerant; and an evaporator configured to evaporate the liquid refrigerant from the condenser....