ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,056, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UACJ Corp. (Tokyo).

"Air conditioner having parallel-flow condenser" was invented by Hikaru Eda (Aichi, Japan), Tomoaki Toyama (Aichi, Japan) and Sayo Fukada (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel-flow-type heat exchanger (1) includes a core (11) having flat, multi-hole pipes (2) arrayed in parallel with fins (3) interposed therebetween, the flat, multi-hole pipes and the fins being alternately stacked in an up-down direction. A first header (4) is disposed at one end of the core in a longitudinal direction of the flat, multi-hole pipes and a second header is disposed at the othe...