ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,054, issued on July 28, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Refrigerant flow path module and heat source unit" was invented by Atsushi Kinoshita (Osaka, Japan), Fumiaki Koike (Osaka, Japan), Junichi Hamadate (Osaka, Japan), Noriko Hoshiyama (Osaka, Japan) and Asahi Ono (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerant flow path module includes: a first pipe portion having a cylindrical flow path and connected to a discharge pipe through which a refrigerant discharged from a compressor of a refrigerant circuit flows; and a second pipe portion having a cylindrical flow path and connected to a suction pipe t...