US Patent Issued to Prometheus Applied Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Turbulence inducer for internal combustion engines" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,462, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Prometheus Applied Technologies LLC (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Turbulence inducer for internal combustion engines" was invented by Luigi P Tozzi (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Maria-Emmanuela Sotiropoulou (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, devices such as Turbulence Inducers may be installed within the intake runner in the proximity of the intake ports of an internal combustion engine. Such Turbulence Inducer devices may efficiently convert the laminar flow kinetic energy upstream of the intake runner into turbulent flow kinetic energy and consequently may incre...