ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,911, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER (Angouleme, France).
"Assembly comprising a generator and electric motors, for a vehicle air-conditioning or refrigeration system" was invented by Nicolas Nay (Jauldes, France), Sebastien Charenton (Roullet-Saint-Estephe, France), Stephane Dufau (Angouleme, France) and Matthieu Robin (Ruelle sur Touvre, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly, having a generator and electric motors, for a vehicle air-conditioning or cooling system, having: a compressor intended to be driven by a heat engine, a top-up electric motor for driving the compressor when the latter is not ...