ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,649, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ZPE LICENSING INC. (Temecula, Calif.).

"Super charger components" was invented by Andrew Jason Zimmer (Temecula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulley assembly having a body, a shaft mount and a plurality of bolts is disclosed. The body is aligned to the shaft mount by providing a tight tolerance between a shoulder portion of the bolt and a neck portion of a counter sunk hole formed in the body. Additionally, an outer surface of the body may have a pattern of friction lines or patches formed by fusing particulate matter to the outer surface with heat generated by a laser beam."

The pa...