US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Nov. 11 for "Electrically heated mixer assembly for an exhaust aftertreatment system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,396, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Electrically heated mixer assembly for an exhaust aftertreatment system" was invented by Yong Yi (Dunlap, Ill.), Ryan James Kominkiewicz (Morton, Ill.), Brandon Neuhoff (Dunlap, Ill.) and Anna Johnson (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixer assembly for mixing, in a mixing tube of an exhaust aftertreatment system, a reductant with an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine may include a mixer and an electrically heated heating element. The mixer may be positioned in proximity to the reductant injector. The electrically heated heating element...