ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,665, issued on March 24, was assigned to GD MIDEA HEATING & VENTILATING EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Foshan, China) and HEFEI MIDEA HEATING & VENTILATING EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Hefei, China).

"Method and device for controlling air conditioner" was invented by Xinli Wang (Foshan, China), Xihua Ma (Foshan, China) and Mingren Wang (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and device for controlling an air conditioner. The air conditioner includes an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a heat storage heat exchanger, a compressor, a four-way valve assembly, and a throttling assembly, wherein the outdoor heat ...