US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 17 for "Electrically assisted pre-chamber ignition system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,902, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Electrically assisted pre-chamber ignition system" was invented by Ashish Dinesh Shah (Canon, Mich.) and Rafael Lago Sari (Commerce Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prechamber device for facilitating a combustion reaction within a combustion chamber of an internal combustion spark-ignition gasoline engine includes a prechamber body, first and second electrodes, an insulation, first and second electrode terminals, a spark plug, and a prechamber head. The prechamber body includes orifices and at least partially contains the com...