ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,302, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Variable displacement swash plate type compressor and control method" was invented by Hyung In Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Seong Gyu Gong (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Min Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun Gi Son (Daejeon, South Korea), Joo Young Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Soo Cheol Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable displacement swash plate type compressor control method and a variable displacement swash plate type compressor controlled thereby may include a first determination step of determining whether liquid ref...