ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,044, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Fuel injection valve" was invented by Hideo Tsukada (Kariya, Japan) and Kiyotaka Yoshimaru (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of injection holes include at least one flat injection hole while an outlet opening of the at least one flat injection hole has a long axis and a short axis, and the at least one flat injection hole includes at least one specific flat injection hole. The specific flat injection hole has an injection hole axis that connects between a center of an inlet opening and a center of the outlet opening, and the long axis of the...