US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Feb. 3 for "Model predictive control for aftertreatment regeneration" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,570, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Model predictive control for aftertreatment regeneration" was invented by Sylvain J. Charbonnel (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one instance, disclosed herein is an aftertreatment regeneration system comprising: an aftertreatment system; a temperature sensor operative to monitor a temperature of the aftertreatment system; a hydrocarbon doser operatively coupled to the aftertreatment system; and a model predictive controller operative to: receive an aftertreatment regeneration request; receive temperature information generated by the temperature se...