ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,342, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES INC. OF ZHUHAI (Zhuhai, China).

"Fluid machinery, heat exchange apparatus and operation method for fluid machinery" was invented by Zhongcheng Du (Zhuhai, China), Zhi Li (Zhuhai, China), Peilin Zhang (Zhuhai, China), Xuewei Song (Zhuhai, China), Ruibo Yu (Zhuhai, China) and Hui Sun (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid machinery includes: a crankshaft, a cylinder sleeve, a crossed groove structure and sliding blocks, and there is a first included angle A between two eccentric parts of the crankshaft. The crankshaft and the cylinder sleeve are eccentrical...