US Patent Issued to Cummins on June 23 for "Profiled cover plate for a piston" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,976, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Profiled cover plate for a piston" was invented by Marcos Manoel Valverde Pereira (Columbus, Ind.), Abhay Kumar Sahu (Pune, India) and Swati Ashvinkumar Veerbhadra (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal combustion engine piston includes a crown defining an annular cavity between an inner wall and an outer wall. The annular cavity includes an opening opposite a top wall and at least partially defines a cooling gallery. A cover plate is assembled with the annular cavity and the piston crown to form a lower boundary of the cooling gallery and thereb...