US Patent Issued to Ekstera on Nov. 4 for "Engine displacer with regenerator channels" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,600, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ekstera Inc. (Toronto).

"Engine displacer with regenerator channels" was invented by Brendan David MacDonald (Toronto) and Brayden Timothy York (Milford, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A displacer for an engine includes a body extending along a displacer longitudinal axis from a displacer first end surface to a displacer second end surface. At least one channel extends between a first opening in the displacer first end surface and a second opening in the displacer second end surface and has sidewalls therebetween defining a channel flow path. The first opening is located at a first radial ...