ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,079, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).
"Fuel pump" was invented by Rodney J. Hemmerlein (Columbus, Ind.) and Michael A. Lucas (Columbus, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve includes a valve body having a valve plunger barrel formed therein and configured to be mounted to a pump head of a fuel pump, a valve plunger arranged to perform reciprocal motion with respect to the valve plunger barrel, a drive assembly configured to cause the valve plunger to perform reciprocal motion, and a spacer configured to couple to the valve plunger to perform reciprocal motion together with the valve plunger and ...