ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,269, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Air conditioner and discharge unit" was invented by Reiji Morioka (Tokyo), Mitsuhiro Shirota (Tokyo), Hirotaka Ishida (Tokyo), Shinji Kawai (Tokyo) and Hisanori Ikeda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner includes a wall-mounted indoor unit which includes a heat exchanger, a blower, and a housing that accommodates the heat exchanger and the blower therein, and which is fixed to a wall surface, and a discharge unit which is disposed above the indoor unit outside the indoor unit. The indoor unit includes a first control unit that controls the...