US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 2 for "Internal combustion engine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,398, issued on June 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Internal combustion engine" was invented by Hidetoshi Hirose (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal combustion engine includes a plurality of chains that are arranged axially adjacent to each other with respect to a crankshaft protruding from an internal combustion engine body, and are each distributed with power from the crankshaft, a chain tensioner that applies tension to the chain, a chain guide that guides the chain, and a bracket that is attached to the internal combustion engine body so as to straddle at least one of the plurality of...