ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,268, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HIGHLY MARELLI JAPAN Corp. (Tokyo).

"Drainage structure for vehicle air-conditioning device" was invented by Makoto Aoshika (Tokyo), Takahito Ishikawa (Tokyo), Hiromichi Yanashima (Tokyo) and Ryuuji Tsukuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drainage structure for an air-conditioning device of a vehicle, the vehicle includes: a partition wall configured to partition between an interior and an exterior of a vehicle cabin for a passenger; an evaporator arranged at an outside of the partition wall for the vehicle cabin, the evaporator being configured to cool the air to be supplied to the int...