US Patent Issued to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems on Dec. 30 for "Piston bearing assembly for an opposed-piston engine" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,015, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (San Diego).

"Piston bearing assembly for an opposed-piston engine" was invented by Ryan G. Mackenzie (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piston for an opposed-piston, internal combustion engine includes a crown with an end surface shaped to form a combustion chamber with an end surface of an opposing piston in the opposed-piston engine, a skirt part including a piston sidewall extending from the crown to an open end of the skirt part, a wristpin bore with first and second openings through the sidewall, a wristpin disposed in the wristpin bore, ...