Restore and Protect; How does it clean?

[tired]

I'm sure both Active Clean and Liqui Shield are patented from the very beginning

So you’re saying they had this tech and sat on it for a long time and didn’t use it?

Otherwise they are no newish patents anyone has found that would suggestive this secret ingredient has been patented. Can you post a link to the one you think it is?

Not all IP is patented. The other option is a trade secret. WD-40 is not patented. The formula for Coke isn’t patented. It’s just kept a secret. Also patent protection only lasts 20 years. I suspect Valvoline is going this route.

 

[97prizm]

I called Valvoline and they said that they never tested it’s ability to remove lead. I run a GM 2.0 LSJ factory supercharged engine open loop with larger injectors and more boost on leaded fuel. No Catalytic converter and run off road only. Lead can build up in tiny oil passages like piston squirters I am told. What is in the Restore oil that cleans? I need to find out if it will remove lead deposits.

Typically you only get lead deposits on spark plug electrodes. I highly doubt the Valvoline will remove any lead deposits. From some digging
"Where the lead goes: Leaded fuel (such as 110 octane racing fuel) is burned strictly inside the combustion chamber. Any lead byproducts are evacuated through the exhaust or end up in the engine oil as combustion contaminants, but the oil passes through the Example Oil Filters before reaching the squirters, preventing debris from clogging the jets."
I ran leaded avgas in my Mazda rx-7 race car years ago without issues.

 

[Japanese]

I think somebody already posted some Valvoline patents that align with the time R&P came out, but I'll look for that.

You can patent certain technology and still keep key components a secret. Also that doesn't mean that will be available to everybody after 20 years. Patent and recipe are two different things. You can patent certain technology components but not the entire recipe with proportions and percents. After all patents are invented to protect technologies, not to make them public.

I just quickly found this video, but will look for more:

 

[tired]

I think somebody already posted some Valvoline patents that align with the time R&P came out, but I'll look for that.

No that was the patent for VPBR.

 

[tired]

I think somebody already posted some Valvoline patents that align with the time R&P came out, but I'll look for that.

You can patent certain technology and still keep key components a secret. Also that doesn't mean that will be available to everybody after 20 years. Patent and recipe are teo different things. You can patent certain technology components but not the entire recipe with proportions and percents. After all patents are invented to protect technologies, not to make them public.

I just quickly found this video, but will look for more:

Again that video is talking about the wrong patent. 1 hour video on the patent for VPBR.

 

[Japanese]

Again that video is talking about the wrong patent. 1 hour video on the patent for VPBR

What is VPBR?

 

[tired]

What is VPBR?

Valvoline Premium Blue Restore

 

[CleanSump]

Valvoline won't disclose the secret which they said isn't the base oil nor a new additive, so this is as good as most speculation I see on the web: With silver bells, and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row.

 

[Brian123]

Valvoline Premium Blue Restore

There is Generation 1 and 2!