ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,628, issued on April 22, was assigned to JCB Research (Uttoxeter, Great Britain).
"Intake assembly" was invented by Frank Zhu (Uttoxeter, Great Britain), Kevin Browne (Uttoxeter, Great Britain) and John Griffin (Uttoxeter, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intake assembly for an internal combustion engine, includes an intake manifold including a first plenum and a plurality of intake runners, the first plenum including an air supply inlet, the intake runners configured to be couplable to a cylinder head of the engine for supplying an air-fuel mixture thereto, the intake manifold configured such that, in use, air is suppl...