US Patent Issued to ASF Technologies (Australia) on Jan. 13 for "Internal combustion engine with improved oil pump arrangement" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,166, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ASF Technologies (Australia) Pty Ltd (Sydney).

"Internal combustion engine with improved oil pump arrangement" was invented by Graham Harry Fountain (Sydney), Emmanuel Kavarnos (Sydney), Dimitrios Psonis (Sydney) and Richard Terrence Tamba (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal combustion engine, including a piston, a cylinder, and an output shaft, wherein the piston is arranged for reciprocating motion within the cylinder, driven by combustion, and the piston is coupled to the output shaft by a coupling such that said reciprocating motion of the piston drives rotation of the output...