ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,807, issued on June 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Reciprocating compressor" was invented by Younghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Youngboo Son (Seoul, South Korea) and Seokjong Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reciprocating compressor may include a discharge muffler that attenuates discharge noise of a discharge gas discharged after being compressed in a cylinder of a compression unit, and two or more discharge hoses coupled to the discharge muffler and that discharges the discharge gas outside of the compression unit through a discharge pipe. As the reciprocating compressor has...