ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,109, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya-City, Japan).

"Vehicle air conditioning system" was invented by Yoshiki Konno (Tajimi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle air conditioning system includes: a dehumidifying device; a power source; an inflow pipe for allowing air from a vehicle interior or a vehicle exterior to flow into the dehumidifying device; a first outflow pipe for returning the air that has been dehumidified by the dehumidifying device to the vehicle interior; a second outflow pipe through which the air containing moisture released by a regeneration process of the dehumidifying devic...