ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,567, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).
"Gear cover and gear housing system" was invented by Matthew D. Brumberg (Scipio, Ind.), Christofer Durkin (Columbus, Ind.) and Ruchita Ashok Karewar (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear housing assembly includes a gear housing and a gear cover for an internal combustion engine. The gear housing includes gear housing drillings, the gear cover includes gear cover drillings, wherein the gear cover is attached to the gear housing such that one of the gear cover drillings is fluidly connected with one of the gear housing drillings via a gasketed interface...