ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,638, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Scroll compressor" was invented by Kangwook Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Yongkyu Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Cheolhwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Howon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scroll compressor, including a casing that forms an outer appearance thereof and having an oil storage space; an electromotive part installed inside of the casing to generate a drive force; a rotational shaft rotatably installed in the electromotive part; a compression part having an orbiting scroll installed to be capable of orbital rotation around t...