US Patent Issued to Cummins on March 25 for "Piston for assembly with a cylinder" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,922, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Piston for assembly with a cylinder" was invented by Raghuvaran Arumugam (Countesthorpe, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piston for assembly with a cylinder of an internal combustion engine. The piston includes a piston body having a longitudinal axis that extends from a crown to a bottom of the piston body. The piston body defines a pin opening having a piston pin axis for receipt of a piston pin. A piston skirt is assembled with and exterior to the piston body. The piston skirt includes a first skirt pocket and a second skirt pocket, wherein th...