ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,951, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJITSU GENERAL Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Hermetic compressor" was invented by Tatsuya Yasui (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenshi Ueda (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Ukai (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoto Tada (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryo Akimoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yudai Morita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hermetic type compressor includes a compressor main body container that is a vertical type having a cylindrical shape, an accumulator container, a compression section that is arranged inside the compressor main body container, that compresses the refrigerant, which has been sucked from the accumulato...