ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,854, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Exhaust structure for exhaust manifold" was invented by Vikas Sheth (Edwards, Ill.), Nataraj Srinivasan (Chennai, India), Pradeep Venugopal (Chennai, India) and Parthiban Pechiyannan (Pin, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust structure for an exhaust manifold associated with an engine includes a first inlet section that defines a first inlet flow passage configured to receive exhaust gas, the first inlet flow passage defining a normalized cross-sectional area of flow, a second inlet section that defines a second inlet flow passage configured to recei...