US Patent Issued to Vitesco Technologies on July 22 for "Directed secondary air supply into the exhaust tract of an internal combustion engine" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,192, issued on July 22, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Directed secondary air supply into the exhaust tract of an internal combustion engine" was invented by Francois Jayat (Wachtberg-Niederbachem, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for supplying a quantity of secondary air into the exhaust tract of an internal combustion engine, having a flow path which is arranged downstream of the gas outlet of the internal combustion engine in the direction of flow of the exhaust gas, having an injection device which is designed to supply a quantity of secondary air at a supply point into the flow p...