US Patent Issued to FEDERAL-MOGUL MOTORPARTS on Sept. 15 for "Piston alignment tool" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,659, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FEDERAL-MOGUL MOTORPARTS LLC (Southfield, Mich.).

"Piston alignment tool" was invented by Christopher Taylor (Skokie, Ill.), Jean Joris (Kontich, Belgium), Hoover Oliver (Skokie, Ill.) and Michael Sadowski (Skokie, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piston alignment tool and an engine kit having the piston alignment tool help facilitate improved positioning of a piston with respect to a cylinder liner. The piston alignment tool includes a body and an inner guide surface extending along an inner diameter of the body. The inner guide surface is configured to guide the piston with respect to ...