US Patent Issued to Subaru on Oct. 6 for "Fuel tank processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,727, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Subaru Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fuel tank processing apparatus" was invented by Akihiro Takemura (Tokyo), Tetsuya Kaneko (Tokyo) and Toshimitsu Waki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel tank processing apparatus includes a first valve, a discharge path, a second valve, and a calculation controller. The first valve is disposed in a fuel tank that stores fuel. The first valve communicates with outside of the fuel tank through the discharge path. Gas discharged from the fuel tank flows through the discharge path. The second valve is disposed in the discharge path. The calculation controller is config...