ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,053, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland) and JOHNSON CONTROLS AIR CONDITIONING AND REFRIGERATION (WUXI) Co. LTD. (Wuxi, China).
"Slide valve for a twin-screw compressor" was invented by Shengmei Yang (Wuxi, China) and Shahebaz Malik (Mechanicsburg, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a slide valve, wherein the slide valve is configured to regulate a load of a twin-screw compressor. The slide valve comprises a slide valve body, wherein the slide valve body has a connecting end and a free end, the connecting end is configured to connect to ...