ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,784, issued on May 6, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Reducer supply device" was invented by Keita Fujisaki (Osaka, Japan), Yohei Kamata (Osaka, Japan), Tsuyoshi Inoue (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Oda (Osaka, Japan), Shigeru Aoki (Osaka, Japan) and Koki Shimizu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a reducer supply device that can be made compact and has excellent maintainability. The reducer supply device includes a nozzle unit that adjusts a flow rate of a reducer which is to be supplied to a NOx purification catalyst device; and a pump unit that supplies the reducer to the nozzle unit. The noz...