US Patent Issued to Cummins on June 24 for "Integration of electric heater into aftertreatment catalyst thermal management" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,757, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Integration of electric heater into aftertreatment catalyst thermal management" was invented by Dheeraj Bharadwaj Gosala (Columbus, Ind.) and Avra Brahma (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for increasing a temperature of an exhaust gas to a target temperature is provided. The method includes determining, by a controller, a target energy of the exhaust gas and determining, by the controller, a target emissions based the target energy. The method further includes determining, by the controller, a tradeoff in a performance of an engine correspond...