ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,344, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Electric compressor" was invented by Eun Gi Son (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Kyu Na (Daejeon, South Korea), Bok Ki Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and You Cheol Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric compressor including a housing, a compression mechanism disposed in the housing and configured to compress a refrigerant, a motor configured to generate power required for the compression mechanism, a rotary shaft configured to transmit power from the motor to the compression mechanism, a bearing configured to support the rotary sh...