ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,349, issued on April 14, was assigned to Valeo Japan Co. Ltd. (Kumagaya, Japan).
"Compressor" was invented by Edward Del-Valle (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Imed Guitari (La Verriere, France), Karthikeyan Rajendran (Chennai, India), Satish Saga (Chennai, India) and Mohamed-Thasthagir Mohamed-Hashim (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scroll compressor including: a housing; a motor arranged in the housing; a rotating shaft configured to be rotated by the motor; an orbital scroll configured to be orbitally moved by the rotating shaft; and a fixed scroll forming a compression chamber together with the orbital scroll. The housing ...