ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,391, issued on March 4, was assigned to ALFDEX AB (Landskrona, Sweden).

"Crankcase gas separator" was invented by Anders Ortegren (Landskrona, Sweden), Mikael Walter (Stockholm), Thomas Andersson Aginger (Skarholmen, Sweden) and Magnus Hansson (Loddekopinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crankcase gas separator includes a separator housing delimiting at least part of a separation space and forming at least part of a liquid phase receiving circumferential inner wall surface, a wall member forming at least part of a gas passage, and a gas pressure regulating valve including at least part of the gas passage. The separator incl...