ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,013, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Fives Cinetic Corp. (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

"Tooling assembly for cleaning a cylinder head using pressurized fluid and a method for the same" was invented by Michael Effrick Jr. (Howell, Mich.), Jakub John (London, Canada), Thomas Brock (Clarkston, Mich.) and Steven Richardson (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cleaning a cylinder head using pressurized fluid and a tooling assembly for the same includes a jet ignition insert attached to a spark plug well defined by the cylinder head. The insert defines an opening in fluid communication with the spark plug well. The i...