US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 22 for "Method and system for side mount fuel tank" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,655, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method and system for side mount fuel tank" was invented by Scott Alan Bohr (Novi, Mich.), Aed Dudar (Canton, Mich.), Frank Topolovec (Canton, Mich.) and Chuck Bartus (Grosse Ile, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for collecting fuel vapors in a fuel system that includes a side mount fuel tank. The methods and systems may allow fuel vapors to be captured during filling of the side mount fuel tank. In one example, the side mount fuel tank is fitted with a fuel filler tube that extends into the side mount fuel t...