ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,279, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KOBELCO COMPRESSORS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Compressor, and control method for same" was invented by Yosuke Fukushima (Hyogo, Japan), Koki Takeuchi (Hyogo, Japan), Katsunori Hamada (Hyogo, Japan) and Kazuyuki Yoda (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor includes: a compressor body that suctions and compresses a gas to be compressed; heat exchangers that circulate a cooled target inside the heat exchangers to cool the cooled target; a fan that is driven by a fan motor and that sends a cooling gas to the heat exchangers to remove heat; a temperature sensor that detects an initial coolin...