ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,049, issued on July 28, was assigned to CRYO TECH LTD. (Ein Harod, Israel).
"Compact integral Stirling linear cryocooler" was invented by Alexander Veprik (Kiriyat Motzkin, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integral cryocooler includes a cold finger within an elongated space defined inside an elongated housing. A tip of the cold finger freely protrudes outside an opening at an exterior end of the housing, and a root of the cold finger is supported in a cantilevered manner at an interior end of the housing. A cryocooler cover sealingly connected to the housing forms a pressure vessel. A ferromagnetic mover is coaxially fixed to...