US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 15 for "Modular assemblies for crankcase oil separators" (Indiana, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,593, issued on July 15, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Modular assemblies for crankcase oil separators" was invented by Rodney Allen Lawrence (Frankfort, Ind.), Brandyn A. Stack (Lafayette, Ind.), Eric W. Ferguson (Cottage Grove, Minn.) and Yegor Litvinov (Shakopee, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems and methods are disclosed for separating oil from a blow-by gas of an engine. An example includes a method that includes passing the blow-by gas to a first oil separating apparatus and a second oil separating apparatus, wherein the first oil separating apparatus and the second oil separating appa...