ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,062, issued on May 27, was assigned to BITZER Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH (Sindelfingen, Germany).

"Refrigerant compressor" was invented by Axel Friedrich (Leipzig, Germany) and Andreas Becker (Halle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerant compressor, includes an overall housing with a motor housing portion and a compressor housing portion, which has a cylinder housing with a cylinder head. The cylinder head has a cylinder head lower part arranged on the cylinder housing and a cylinder head upper part which closes off the cylinder head and has at least one outlet chamber integrated in the cylinder head upper part, in such a ...