ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,688, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Electric compressor" was invented by Hak Su Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwang Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ok Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Duck Bin Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea), Won Bin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang Woo Jo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric compressor capable of preventing the occurrence of pulsation noise by increasing a volume of a discharge chamber. The electric compressor includes a housing, a compression unit, a driving unit in the housing which drives the compression unit, a rear housing havi...