ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,127, issued on March 18, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Brake dust trap for a drum brake" was invented by Boopathy Mani (Bangalore, India) and Sundar Vignesh Alavandar (Chennai Tamil Nadu, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake dust trap for a drum brake, the brake dust trap having an annular shape arranged to be received in a groove formed circumferentially in a drum of the drum brake to trap particulate matter generated by the drum brake, wherein the brake dust trap is arranged to be retained in the groove to rotate along with the drum, and removable from the drum brake for disposal of trapped parti...