ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,127, issued on June 10, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Multi-fuel injector with fuel mixing" was invented by Dana R. Coldren (Secor, Ill.) and Eric L. Schroeder (Germantown Hills, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel injector is capable of injecting a plurality of different fuels in a single fuel injection event, the fuel injector including: a nozzle at an end of the fuel injector, the nozzle having a tip, openings in the tip of the nozzle through which fuel is configured to be injected, and a check valve member with a tip located within the nozzle, the check valve member being movable between an injection po...