ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,047, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Inlet metering valve block" was invented by Pisey Leute (Waterford, Pa.), Sudheer Khanapure (Karnataka, India) and Manuel Flores (Erie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inlet metering valve (IMV) block may include a plurality of IMV apertures, wherein each aperture of the plurality of IMV apertures is adapted to receive at least one IMV of a plurality of IMVs. The IMV block may further include an internal fuel passage in fluid communication with the plurality of IMV apertures. The IMV block may further include a fuel inlet port fluidically ...