US Patent Issued on Sept. 16 for "Opposed-piston internal combustion engine" (Latvian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,257, issued on Sept. 16.

"Opposed-piston internal combustion engine" was invented by Uldis Atmats (Riga, Latvia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to internal combustion engines, to opposed-piston internal combustion engines in particular.The opposed-piston internal combustion engine comprises a working cylinder and an adjacently-located compressor cylinder. The working cylinder comprises a first working piston and a second working piston, an inlet port and an outlet port formed on the working cylinder, a spark plug and a fuel injection nozzle arranged in the working cylinder, a first crankshaft and a secon...