US Patent Issued to Icebox Heat Pumps on Nov. 3 for "Compressor with integrated cooling" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,224, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Icebox Heat Pumps Inc. (Petaluma, Calif.).

"Compressor with integrated cooling" was invented by Matthew Brandon Stroud (Petaluma, Calif.), Jodie Prud'Homme (San Francisco) and Matthew James Lawrence (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compressors with integrated cooling and systems incorporating compressors with integrated cooling are disclosed. The compressors are configured to simultaneously compress and cool a working fluid such as CO2 using a movable wall between a fluid compression chamber and a fluid in an adjacent or surrounding fluid chamber. The compressors employ a method of ...