ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,181, issued on June 10, was assigned to MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Foshan, China), GUANGDONG MIDEA ELECTRIC CO . LTD. (Foshan, China), GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO . LTD. (Foshan, China) and GUANGDONG JIYA PRECISION MACHINERY TECHNOLOGY CO LTD. (Foshan, China).

"Internal-meshing planetary gear device" was invented by Wenjie Lin (Foshan, China), Gang Wang (Foshan, China), Kiyoji Minegishi (Forshan, China), Ziming Guo (Foshan, China) and Tsuyoshi Isaji (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal-meshing planetary gear device includes an internally toothed gear provided with internal teeth and is fixed to an outer rin...