US Patent Issued to Mahle International on July 21 for "System and method for adjustable fuel canister" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,141, issued on July 21, was assigned to Mahle International GmbH (Germany).

"System and method for adjustable fuel canister" was invented by Eric Mathes (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Antonio Spadafora (Tecumseh, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustable evaporative emission system (EVAP) canister has a housing with at least a first chamber and a second chamber. The first chamber has a first opening and a second opening opposite the first opening, and the first chamber has a first chamber maximum capacity to house a fuel vapor filtering medium. The second chamber has a third opening and a fourth opening opposite the third ope...