US Patent Issued to Cummins on Dec. 17 for "Modular and scalable rail fuel system architecture" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,168,966, issued on Dec. 17, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Modular and scalable rail fuel system architecture" was invented by Kieran J. Richards (West Haddon, Great Britain), Brandon Glover (Coventry, Great Britain), Vincent Denoyelle (Daventry, Great Britain), Jacques L. Vincent (Rugby, Great Britain), Raghuvaran Arumugam (Daventry, Great Britain), Satya Dinakar Vyseetty (Daventry, Great Britain), Joseph A. Worthington (Scipio, Ind.), Abhishek Mehrotra (Columbus, Ind.), Deepak Pillai (Seymour, Ind.) and Todd S. Manley (Franklin, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector block that directs fuel from an outer fuel ...