ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,016, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Takahito Hikone (Tokyo) and Naoya Mukaitani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit, a water circuit, a water heat exchanger, and a controller. The water circuit includes: a water pump; an inlet-side pressure sensor configured to detect an inlet-side water pressure that is a pressure of the heat medium which flows into the water heat exchanger; and an outlet-side pressure sensor configured to detect an outlet-side water pressure that is a pressure of the ...