ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,364, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FUJITSU GENERAL Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Air conditioner and air conditioning system" was invented by Satoshi Okumura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner includes an outdoor unit, an indoor unit and a refrigerant circuit. The conditioner performs heating operation in which an indoor heat exchanger functions as a condenser for a refrigerant that is compressed by a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger functions as an evaporator for a refrigerant that is condensed by the indoor heat exchanger. The conditioner includes a memory, and processing circuitry configured...