ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,571, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Refrigeration cycle device" was invented by Daiki Kato (Kariya-city, Japan), Norihiko Enomoto (Kariya-city, Japan) and Yuichi Kami (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration cycle device includes first and second evaporation units connected in parallel to a flow of a refrigerant, and an accumulator. When a path of an energy flow in which heat of a first object to be cooled moves to a suction refrigerant drawn into a compressor is defined as a first path, and when a path of an energy flow in which heat of a second object to be cooled mov...