US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on March 3 for "Oil filter with two filtrate outlets and vehicle lubrication circuit" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,801, issued on March 3, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Oil filter with two filtrate outlets and vehicle lubrication circuit" was invented by Baptiste Boutin (La Tour du Pin, France) and Nicolas Granottier (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oil filter for vehicle lubrication system includes a housing forming a cavity, a filter medium mounted in the housing cavity, an inlet port located upstream of the filter medium in the direction of oil flow, a first outlet port located downstream of the filter medium. The oil filter includes a second outlet port located downstream of the filter medium."

The ...