US Patent Issued to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES on June 16 for "Air conditioner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,004, issued on June 16, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Air conditioner" was invented by Futoshi Umemura (Osaka, Japan) and Ryuji Seino (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner includes a casing provided with an air passage having a suction port and a blow-out port, a fan that is disposed in the air passage and blows out, from the blow-out port, air sucked from the suction port, a primary filter disposed in the air passage, and a secondary filter disposed downstream of the primary filter in the air passage. The secondary filter is finer than the primary filter and has antiviral propertie...