ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,877, issued on March 25, was assigned to BRP-ROTAX GMBH & Co. KG (Gunskirchen, Austria).
"Supercharger assembly" was invented by Hubert Loimayr (Hartkirchen, Austria), Markus Wolfsgruber (Neukirchen bei Altmuenster, Austria), Paul Allmann (Linz, Austria), Rudolf Kusel (Wels, Austria) and Rudolf Tscherne (Buchkirchen, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supercharger assembly has a supercharger housing defining an air inlet and an air outlet; an impeller disposed in the supercharger housing; an impeller shaft connected to the impeller for driving the impeller; a driveshaft connected to the impeller shaft for driving the impeller ...