ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,465, issued on June 2, was assigned to GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INC. (Torrance, Calif.).
"Limited-channel compressor" was invented by Malay C Maniar (Boblingen, Germany) and Shyamaprasad K (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor wheel having a hub and a plurality of impellers that define flow channels. At a restriction point downstream from an inducer-end and upstream from a point at which the flow channel turns from an axial flow to a radial flow, the impellers are thick-walled, and at that point a sum of the flow-channel restriction-point tangential dimensions is not greater than 50% of the circumference at the...