ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,366, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Gas compressor" was invented by Masaki Sato (Tokyo) and Hirotaka Saiki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas compressor includes a main body portion including a compression unit configured to compress gas, an air blowing unit, and a drive unit configured to drive the compression unit and the air blowing unit, a cover portion covering at least a part of the main body portion and having an air vent through which air flows from the air blowing unit, and a handle portion having a gripping portion. The air vent faces a rotation axis direction of a rotation member of the ...