Weekly Worthless Patent

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Internal combustion engine

General Motors got several engine related patents this very day too. Whose do you think will have the most value to anyone? Read the text of this patent closely. A whole lot of it sounds just like balderdash (or BS) to me. Do you end up believing this invention has been carefully built and really tested? I don't, I get the impression the inventor is guessing about how it will work. The patent office does not confirm that something works, only that the claims made at the end of the patent are novel and non-obvious.

Take a real close read through the claims too. You should notice something quite odd--at least "odd" if the patent were to really have any strength. There is no simple claim for any of the conical dent in the piston or the o-ring piston ring or the o-ring piston ring urging o-ring or the forcing of fuel laden air back into the intake manifold--all the claims include a combination of these "invented" features with other old-art parts. I'm sure the patent attorneys did the best they could for their fees.

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