ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,914, issued on April 29, was assigned to FPT INDUSTRIAL S.P.A (Turin, Italy).

"Interconnection system of a urea-based reducing agent injector to an after-treatment an exhaust gas device" was invented by Marco Federico Pidria (Turin, Italy), Luca Vargiu (Turin, Italy), Giuseppe Inghilterra (Turin, Italy), Gemma Damiani (Turin, Italy), Felice Carlo Nuovo (Turin, Italy) and Andrea Renzullo (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System for interconnecting a urea-based reducing agent injector to an exhaust gas post-treatment device including an injector, a flange arranged to couple the injector to an exhaust gas line, a gasket arrang...