US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce Solutions on Sept. 16 for "Manifold, a turbomachine including such a manifold, a turbocharger including such a turbomachine, and an internal combustion engine including such a manifold" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,256, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Solutions GmbH (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Manifold, a turbomachine including such a manifold, a turbocharger including such a turbomachine, and an internal combustion engine including such a manifold" was invented by Nicolas Lachenmaier (Altshausen, Germany), Tim Refert (Tettnang, Germany) and Tobias Mannle (Ravensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manifold for deflecting a flow of a medium flowing through the manifold from an inlet side of the manifold to an outlet side of the manifold includes: the inlet side; a wall at least partially defining and thereby restrict...