ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,738, issued on May 27, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Compressor control method" was invented by Hong Min Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kweon Soo Lim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Soo Cheol Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor control method, including: when driving of a compressor of a vehicular air conditioner starts, a determining step of determining whether a condition for limiting an output of the compressor is satisfied by using at least one among whether a power supply unit of a vehicle is reset, a start-off period and the number of times the compressor is driven; an output...