ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,510, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SHANGHAI MARINE DIESEL ENGINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Shanghai).

"Magnetic levitation motor sealing-cooling apparatus for refrigeration system and method therefor" was invented by Yan Zhang (Shanghai), Qiye Jin (Shanghai), Jingya Feng (Shanghai), Pingting Wang (Shanghai), Yu Bao (Shanghai), Xiaobo Li (Shanghai), Yue Li (Shanghai), Shien Tu (Shanghai), Qingpeng Ji (Shanghai) and Wei Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a magnetic levitation motor sealing-cooling apparatus for a refrigeration system motors of a first-stage compressor (1) and a second-stage compressor (2) are cooled by com...