ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,684, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Vortex compressor" was invented by Qilin Huang (Shanghai), Yu Shi (Shanghai) and Maojun He (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vortex compressor includes (i) a housing, (ii) an interior chamber housed in the housing, (iii) a compression assembly having a static scroll fixed to the housing and a dynamic scroll mated and movably disposed with the static scroll, wherein a compression cavity is disposed between the static scroll and the dynamic scroll, (iv) a drive assembly having a main shaft and a drive plate connecting to the dynamic scroll, and th...