ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,512, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai (Guangdong, China).

"Multi-stage compressor and air conditioning unit" was invented by Xiaokun Wu (Guangdong, China), Ying Li (Guangdong, China), Zhongkeng Long (Guangdong, China), Chiliang Luo (Guangdong, China) and Haomin Lian (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a multi-stage compressor and an air conditioning unit. The multi-stage compressor includes a flash tank, which is arranged in the multi-stage compressor, a refrigerant inlet of the flash tank is configured to be communicated with a condenser, a vapor ...