ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,646, issued on May 20, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Compressor sealing element arrangement near stator for controlling gaseous fluid flow there through" was invented by Dirk Gutberlet (Wurselen, Germany), Michael Friedl (Pulheim, Germany) and Kadir Dursun (Hurth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising a stator and a rotor which are arranged inside a housing extending along a common longitudinal axis, wherein the stator encloses the rotor in a radial direction. A space is formed between an inside of a wall of the housing and an outside of a wall of the stator. The housing has a first h...