ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,302, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STASSKOL GMBH (Stassfurt, Germany) and NEUMAN & ESSER GMBH & Co. KG (Ubach-Palenberg, Germany).

"Compressor, disc body and seal" was invented by Klaus Hubert Hoff (Aachen, Germany), Uwe Morawa (Langenweddingen, Germany) and Marc Langela (Gusten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor having a stationary part and a part oscillating along a main axis (X) as well as a leakage path (L) extending between the stationary part and the oscillating part in the axial direction, wherein multiple chambers, which are arranged axially in succession and extend annularly around the main axis (X), a...