US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 22 for "Linear compressor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,235, issued on July 22, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Linear compressor" was invented by Kiwon Noh (Seoul, South Korea) and Youngmun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear compressor includes a shell and a frame disposed in the shell, where the frame includes a body portion and a flange portion extending in a radial direction from a front of the body portion. The linear compressor further includes a cylinder coupled to an inside of the body portion, a piston disposed in the cylinder and configured to reciprocate axially, a drive unit coupled to a rear surface of the flange portion...