ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,323, issued on May 12, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Filter removal tool and method" was invented by Abhishek Narayana Shetty (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for draining and removing a vehicle filter (e.g. an oil filter, an air filter, a coolant filter, a fuel filter, or the like) from a vehicle, and a method for removing a vehicle filter from a vehicle. The tool includes a perforator for providing a perforation in a vehicle filter; a housing comprising a cavity and an opening therein for receiving a fluid from a perforation in a vehicle filter into the cavity, the perforator at le...