ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,629, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and DAIKIN EUROPE N.V. (Ostend, Belgium).

"Heat pump and method for installing the same" was invented by Eddy Delanghe (Oostend, Belgium), Alain Coorens (Oostend, Belgium), Nicolas Heintz (Oostend, Belgium), Jonas Dangreau (Oostend, Belgium), Robbe De Clerck (Oostend, Belgium), Paul Demeyer (Oostend, Belgium) and Tim Coessens (Oostend, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pump including a refrigerant circuit configured to circulate flammable refrigerant, and an indoor unit configured to be arranged in an indoor space. The refrigerant circuit has a ...