US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Feb. 18 for "Exhaust system sensor and housing assembly" (Illinois, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,055, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Exhaust system sensor and housing assembly" was invented by Yong Yi (Dunlap, Ill.), Nathan Folger (Chillicothe, Ill.) and Christopher Schell (Altura, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor and housing assembly may include a sensor configured to detect a quantity of a gas in engine exhaust, and a housing including an inner upstream wall, a first inner side wall having a sensor opening for the sensor, an inner downstream wall opposite to the inner upstream wall, and a second inner side wall opposite to the first inner side wall, and having a housing inlet ...