ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,677, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS INC. (Valcourt, Canada).
"Two-stroke engine assembly having a catalytic converter and method for controlling same" was invented by Bruno Schuehmacher (Richmond, Canada), Sebastien Thibault (Sherbrooke, Canada), Marc Giguere (Magog, Canada), Vincent Gamache (Granby, Canada), Luc Champigny (Racine, Canada) and Claude Fortin (St-Denis-de-Brompton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-stroke engine assembly has a two-stroke internal combustion engine (ICE) and an exhaust system fluidly connected to the ICE. The exhaust system has a tuned pipe and at least one c...