US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on April 14 for "Additive manufactured assembly-free tool for maintenance of vehicle engine" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,580, issued on April 14, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Additive manufactured assembly-free tool for maintenance of vehicle engine" was invented by Yuan Zhong (Danderyd, Sweden) and Lennart Olausson (Torslanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly-free tool for maintenance of an engine in a vehicle is described. The tool comprises a bar extending in an axial direction and having a first portion with a first end and a second portion with a second end and a housing surrounding the first portion of the bar. The bar is axially translatable in relation to the housing. The housing comprises an embedd...