US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for providing a diesel-methanol emulsion for direct injection engines" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,005, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for providing a diesel-methanol emulsion for direct injection engines" was invented by Michael David Gerstner (Peoria, Ill.), Daniel Raymond Baldwin (Mossville, Ill.), Robert Graumuller (Kiel, Germany) and Eric Lee Schroeder (Germantown Hills, 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 mixer to mix two fuels to provide for a transition from using only one of the fuels to using only the other fuel as power demand changes. The output of the mixer is provided to the engine a...