ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,915, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Engine" was invented by Kyohei Izumi (Hyogo, Japan), Yuji Hida (Hyogo, Japan) and Jun Takagi (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine includes a starter motor and a filter, both of which are positioned to a side of a cylinder that faces an exhaust port with respect to a direction that is perpendicular to both a reciprocating direction of a piston and an axial direction of a crankshaft. Moreover, the starter motor is positioned to a side of the cylinder that faces a crankcase, and the filter is positioned to a side of the starter motor that fac...