US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 4 for "Valve system for two-stroke engine" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,744, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Valve system for two-stroke engine" was invented by Alan G. Holmes (Clarkston, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve system includes a valve member disposed in a cylinder of a two-stroke engine, the valve member disposed between a piston and a sidewall of the cylinder, the cylinder including a combustion chamber and a fluid port formed in the sidewall, the piston configured to move within the cylinder along the cylinder axis during a power cycle between a first position and a second position. The valve member is moveable along the cylinder ax...