ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,465, issued on June 3, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System including a thermo-structural spacer for air inlet and compressor interface" was invented by Abhishek Kumar Sahu (Karnataka, India), Saurabh Kumar Verma (Karnataka, India) and Ronald Miller (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermo-structural spacer is provided. The spacer includes a cylindrical center portion, a first flange connected to a first end of the cylindrical center portion, a second flange connected to a second end of the cylindrical center portion. The second end is distal from the first end. The spacer furt...