ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,953, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Gas compressor and gas compression system" was invented by Takehiro Matsuzaka (Tokyo) and Masahiko Takano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas compressor includes: a low pressure gas path that introduces compressed gas delivered from a low pressure stage compressor body into a high pressure stage compressor body; a first low pressure gas release valve disposed on a first low pressure branch path branched from the low pressure gas path; a high pressure gas path that introduces the compressed gas delivered from the high pressure stage...