ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,104, issued on June 10, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Oil sump with oil drain plug" was invented by Gerwin Ott (Steyr, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oil sump with an oil drain channel for a motor vehicle has an oil sump wall with an oil sump inner side. The oil sump inner side delimits an oil sump storage space at least in some sections. The oil sump wall has an oil sump outer side, which faces an environment surrounding the oil sump. The oil sump further has two states, with, in the first state, a liquid medium being receivable and storable in the oil sump storage space, and in the second state, ...