ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,841, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to JUSTAIRTECH GMBH (Munich).

"Gas refrigerating machine, method for operating a gas refrigerating machine and method for manufacturing a gas refrigerating machine having a rotationally symmetrical design" was invented by Holger Sedlak (Sauerlach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas refrigerating machine having: an input for gas to be cooled; a recuperator; a compressor having a compressor input, the compressor input being coupled to a first recuperator output; a heat exchanger; a turbine; and a gas output, wherein the recuperator is rotationally symmetrical, wherein an axis of symmetry of ...