US Patent Issued to PLAGGIO & C. on Aug. 25 for "Muffler for internal combustion engines" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,373, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PLAGGIO & C. S.P.A. (Pontedera, Italy).

"Muffler for internal combustion engines" was invented by Adriano Magherini (Pontedera, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A muffler (4) for motor vehicles comprising an intake pipe (8) of the exhaust gases that separates, at a fork (10), into a main pipe (12) and a secondary pipe (16), a muffler body (24) which delimits an expansion volume (28) and houses at least partly the main pipe (12) and the secondary pipe (16), wherein the intake pipe (8) of the exhaust gas is in fluid continuous connection with the main pipe (12) through the secondary pipe (16)...