ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,083, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Temperature raising mechanism for blow-by gas treatment device and engine provided with temperature raising mechanism for blow-by gas treatment device" was invented by Yu Suzuki (Sakai, Japan), Yuki Yoshita (Sakai, Japan) and Satoshi Shibata (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature raising mechanism 800 for a blow-by gas treatment device has a head cover 4 assembled to a cylinder head, a blow-by gas treatment device 100 which is disposed in the head cover 4 and treats the blow-by gas, and heating means 600 which is fixed to an outer surface 703 of...