ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,634, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZF COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS (QINGDAO) Co. LTD. (Qigdao, China).

"Clutch-type air compressor system and control method and control apparatus thereof" was invented by Ronghua Ni (Qingdao, China), Qiushuang Li (Qingdao, China) and Juan Zhu (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clutch-type air compressor system and a control method and control apparatus thereof. The clutch-type air compressor system includes a clutch-type air compressor, a natural aspiration pipeline connected to the atmosphere, a supercharged intake pipeline leading to an engine intake pipe, and an intake control valv...