ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,184, issued on July 1, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Diesel engine aftertreatment system" was invented by Joshua L. Ratts (Pine Village, Ill.) and Robert D. Clayton (Peoria, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, devices and methods including apparatus for aftertreatment for a diesel engine, optionally including: a housing having an inlet, an outlet and defining a cavity therein; a plurality of tubes mounted within the cavity and arranged to define a multi-flow split arrangement to pass an exhaust flow of the diesel engine through each of the plurality of tubes; and a plurality of treatment units configured...