US Patent Issued to Cummins Power Generation on Dec. 9 for "Cylinder head joint gas leakage mitigation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,667, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cummins Power Generation Ltd. (London).

"Cylinder head joint gas leakage mitigation" was invented by Robert Harries (London) and Simon Anthony Burge (Rugby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal combustion engine system includes a cylinder block, a plurality of bite rings, a cylinder head, and a head gasket. The cylinder block defines a combustion cylinder. The plurality of bite rings encompass the cylinder. The cylinder head is coupled to the cylinder block and covers the combustion cylinder. The head gasket is disposed between the cylinder head and the cylinder block and is s...