ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,073, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BITZER KUEHLMASCHINENBAU GMBH (Sindelfingen, Germany).

"Refrigeration system with a scroll machine having a plate inserted in a base of the scroll machine" was invented by Christian Scharer (Gaggenau, Germany), Markus Hauser (Rottenburg am Neckar-Oberndorf, Germany) and Klaus Feller (Herrenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scroll machine, in particular a scroll compressor, has a first scroll unit with a base and a scroll rib protruding from the base with a scroll rib tip, a second scroll unit with a base and a scroll rib protruding from the base with a scroll rib tip. The first scr...