US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for actively managing pilot fuel storage tanks" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,908, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for actively managing pilot fuel storage tanks" was invented by Jonathan W. Anders (Peoria, Ill.), David Mark Ginter (Peoria, Ill.) and Kenth I. Svensson (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal combustion engine system is described herein. The system uses a pilot fuel to assist in the ignition of the primary fuel or uses a pilot fuel rather than a primary fuel in some instances. The pilot fuel is stored in one or more pilot fuel storage tanks that are actively managed to maintain a desired physical state of the pilot fuel ...