US Patent Issued to FCA US on Aug. 25 for "Recirculation check valve" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,281, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Recirculation check valve" was invented by Darrin W. Hurley (Flat Rock, Mich.), Jeffrey A. Johnson (Clawson, Mich.), Michael T. Marcon (Lake Orion, Mich.) and Samuel Marinho de Oliveira Goncalves (Para de Minas, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recirculation check valve positioned between a fuel system filler tube and a fuel system recirculation line. The check valve includes a hollow cylindrical insert having a plurality of radially inwardly extending projections provided around an inner circumference of the hollow cylindrical insert that are separated...