US Patent Issued to CHEVRON ORONITE, Chevron U.S.A. on July 28 for "Compositions for mitigating low speed pre-ignition events" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,450, issued on July 28, was assigned to CHEVRON ORONITE COMPANY LLC (San Ramon, Calif.) and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Compositions for mitigating low speed pre-ignition events" was invented by Jiun-Le Shih (El Sobrante, Calif.), Chung-Hao Kuo (Albany, Calif.) and Charles Paul Loeper (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fuel composition for preventing or reducing low speed pre-ignition events in a spark-ignited internal combustion engine is provided. The fuel composition includes a hydrocarbon fuel boiling the gasoline or diesel range and a primary additive having a structure given byor a salt thereof. A is...