US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Sept. 30 for "Air-cooled, four-stroke aviation engine" (Michigan, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,010, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Air-cooled, four-stroke aviation engine" was invented by Patrick Henry Baer (Clarkston, Mich.) and Michael Glynn Glucksman (Montgomery, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved air-cooled aviation engine includes a compact combustion chamber having an intake valve opening, an exhaust valve opening, and a generally elliptical shape. The elliptical shape has a major axis and a minor axis, with the major axis intersecting both the intake valve opening and the exhaust valve opening. In some examples, the major axis is the same length or shorter ...