US Patent Issued to BRP-ROTAX on March 24 for "Protective heat shield enclosure for turbocharged engines" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,434, issued on March 24, was assigned to BRP-ROTAX GMBH & Co. KG (Gunskirchen, Austria).

"Protective heat shield enclosure for turbocharged engines" was invented by Markus Wolfsgruber (Neukirchen bei Altmuenster, Austria), Johannes Wurm (Wallern an der Trattnach, Austria) and Philipp Albert (Gunskirchen, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine assembly for a vehicle incorporating an internal combustion engine including an exhaust manifold to discharge exhaust gases, a turbocharger coupled to the exhaust manifold via a coupling conduit to receive the discharged exhaust gases to drive the turbocharger to produce compressed ai...