ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,221, issued on July 22, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Fuel injection system" was invented by Akira Tamura (Sakai, Japan), Hiroki Oso (Sakai, Japan), Naotaro Nagai (Sakai, Japan), Shingo Matsunobu (Sakai, Japan) and Masanari Tennomi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel injection system capable of suppressing an occurrence of distortion in an injector during assembly of components. A fuel injection system (3) includes: a bracket (5) which is fixed to a cylinder head (21) of an engine (2); a fuel accumulator (6) which is supported by and fixed to the bracket...