US Patent Issued to Cummins on July 22 for "Lubricant manifold for internal combustion engine" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,186, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Lubricant manifold for internal combustion engine" was invented by Shweta Nitin Patil (Columbus, Ind.) and Chuan Wang (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lubricant manifold includes a lubricant filter head, a pump inlet channel, an inlet transfer channel, and a lubricant cooler. The lubricant filter head is configured to be coupled to a lubricant filter. The pump inlet channel is fluidly coupled to the lubricant filter head and integrally formed with the lubricant filter head. The pump inlet channel is configured to receive a lubricant and provide th...