US Patent Issued to Valeo Electrification on July 21 for "Stone guard" (American, Mexican, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,352, issued on July 21, was assigned to Valeo Electrification (Cergy Pontoise, France).

"Stone guard" was invented by Youssef Beddadi (San Luis Potosi, Mexico), Roy Riski (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Jesus Leyja (San Luis Potosi, Mexico), Catalino Loredo (San Luis Potosi, Mexico), Pedro Francisco Valero (San Luis Potosi, Mexico), Ricardo Sanchez (San Luis Potosi, Mexico), Bruno Demory (La Verriere, France), Mohamed Alaoui (La Verriere, France) and Dominik Sporna (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stone guard including: a guard member configured to allow a flow of air to pass through the guard member and block stones from p...