ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,613, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Engine device including an orientation of a fuel return line attached to a common rail" was invented by Kohei Tsushima (Osaka, Japan) and Masataka Uchibori (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine device including a common rail configured to store, at a high pressure, a fuel supplied by a fuel feed pump. The common rail includes a pressure reducing valve configured to discharge the fuel in the common rail to a fuel return pipe. The fuel return pipe extends from the pressure reducing valve to a position higher than the pressure reduci...