US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Sept. 9 for "Internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle, in particular for a motor car" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,744, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle, in particular for a motor car" was invented by Adolf Kremer (Remseck, Germany), Steffen Loll (Stuttgart, Germany), Frederic Brunelle (Stuttgart, Germany), Markus Fenzl (Forchtenberg, Germany), Andreas Schaible (Weil im Schoenbuch, Germany) and Bastian Ruetzel (Bruchsal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal combustion engine includes a suction tract, a compressor disposed in the suction tract, and an exhaust tract. A secondary air system is fluidically connected to the exhaust tract at an...