US Patent Issued to Cummins, Scania on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for cold operation NOx burden reduction" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,910, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) and Scania CV AB (Sodertalje, Sweden).

"Systems and methods for cold operation NOx burden reduction" was invented by Janardhan Kodavasal (Indianapolis), Ved Merchant (Columbus, Ind.), Agneya Turlapati (Indianapolis) and Kristopher R. Bare (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes initiating a low engine-out NOx (LEON) mode by controlling a component of a vehicle having an aftertreatment system to decrease an instantaneous engine-out NOx (EONOx) amount. The method also includes comparing a temperature of the aftertreatment system to a thresh...