US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 8 for "Piston for compression-ignition engine having antebowl and engine operating strategy utilizing same" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,200, issued on July 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Piston for compression-ignition engine having antebowl and engine operating strategy utilizing same" was invented by Brandon Bowditch (Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct-injected compression ignition internal combustion engine includes an engine housing having a cylinder and a piston movable within the cylinder and including a piston end face forming a combustion bowl. The piston end face has an annular piston rim with a rounded inner rim surface that extends radially inward and axially downward from a planar outer rim surface to a combustion...