ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,398, issued on April 8.

"Compressor assemblies including lower covers having mounting feet skirts configured for increasing mounting feet stiffness and resistance to crack formation" was invented by Rahul Sharad Gadhe (Pune, India), Kamendra Singh (Pune, India), Amod Vinay Khardekar (Pune, India), Sanket Prabhakar Junghare (Pune, India), Chad Allen Winner (Versailles, Ohio) and Chase Austin Benning (Springfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of compressor assemblies including lower covers having mounting feet skirts configured for increasing mounting feet stiffness and provide better resistan...