ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,043, issued on June 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Compressor" was invented by Sangik Son (Seoul, South Korea), Youngpil Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Kyungmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Wooju Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor includes: a cylinder in which a piston is accommodated, the cylinder defining a compression space that is configured, based on the piston reciprocating in an axial direction, to compress a refrigerant gas therein, and a frame configured to accommodate the cylinder therein and defining a gas hole configured to pass the refrigerant gas therethrough....