US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 25 for "Engine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,372, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Engine" was invented by Yui Saito (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine performs ventilation of blow-by gas by introducing air from an intake passage into a crankcase. The engine includes an air introduction passage that fluidly connects the intake passage to the crankcase, a unidirectional valve attached to the crankcase and configured to restrict a flow of gas from the crankcase toward the intake passage through the air introduction passage, and a coupling passage that guides, into the crankcase, air discharged from the unidirectional v...