US Patent Issued to S & J 17 on March 18 for "Reserve fuel system" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,004, issued on March 18, was assigned to S & J 17 LLC (Fort Wayne, Ind.).

"Reserve fuel system" was invented by Samuel S. Conte (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Jeffrey Britton (Leo, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reserve fuel tank retention and control (RTRC) module and a method of operating a vehicle including an engine and a main fuel tank containing a fuel, the method including mounting the RTRC module onto the vehicle; fluidly connecting the RTRC module to the engine and to the main fuel tank; actuating a valve of the RTRC module for a predetermined time to purge moisture in a fuel supply hose into the engine; and upon the main fu...