US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 18 for "Crankshaft nose end design" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,073, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Crankshaft nose end design" was invented by Suman Bargav R (Bengaluru, India), Durga Prasad Kandula (Bangalore, India) and James D. Cremonesi (Rochester Hils, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicles, crankshaft assemblies for vehicles, and methods for connecting vehicle accessory components and crankshafts are provided. A vehicle includes an engine configured to produce a linear motion output; a crankshaft configured to convert the linear motion output to rotational motion and terminating at an end with a tapered exterior surface extending t...