ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,964, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Gas compressor" was invented by Kenji Morita (Tokyo), Masahiko Takano (Tokyo), Shigeyuki Yorikane (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Takeuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simpler notification is given about identifying causes of abnormalities and indicating dealing methods or countermeasures to deal with the causes of abnormalities.In a gas compressor including: a compressor body that compresses a gas; a drive source that drives the compressor body; at least one physical sensor that is disposed on at least one of a compressed-gas pipe or an el...