US Patent Issued to CARRIER on Nov. 11 for "Compressor assembly including a flow-restricting valve" (New York, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,462, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Compressor assembly including a flow-restricting valve" was invented by Scott A. Nieforth (Clay, N.Y.), Vishnu M. Sishtla (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Michael Bergin (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative example embodiment of a compressor assembly includes a compressor housing having a suction inlet and a discharge outlet. A flow restricting valve allows unrestricted fluid flow in a first direction into the housing through the suction inlet and out of the discharge outlet during a first operating condition. The flow restricti...