ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,471, issued on July 8, was assigned to GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES INC. OF ZHUHAI (Zhuhai, China).

"Zero-load output non-stop control method and apparatus, and unit" was invented by Hua Liu (Zhuhai, China), Zhiping Zhang (Zhuhai, China), Zhongkeng Long (Zhuhai, China), Zhiliang Luo (Zhuhai, China), Bing Zhang (Zhuhai, China) and Mingzhi Zhao (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention are a zero-load output non-stop control method and apparatus, and a unit. The apparatus comprises: a three-way valve, provided at an exhaust port of a compressor; a mixing tank, provided between an air suction port of th...