US Patent Issued to AVL LIST on March 18 for "Valve-actuating device" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,012, issued on March 18, was assigned to AVL LIST GMBH (Graz, Austria).

"Valve-actuating device" was invented by Martin Klampfer (Hitzendorf, Austria), Andreas Zurk (Weinburg, Austria) and Thomas Salmutter (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a valve-actuating device for actuating a valve of a reciprocating piston engine, comprising a first and second rocker arm rotatably mounted about a common rotational axis; a pushrod connected to the first rocker arm so as to transmit an actuating movement of the first rocker arm to a valve; a first and second cam arranged on a shaft, where the first rocker arm ...