US Patent Issued to Cummins on Nov. 11 for "Air handling systems and controls for internal combustion engines operating with a miller cycle" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,415, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Air handling systems and controls for internal combustion engines operating with a miller cycle" was invented by Ke Wang (Wuhan, China), Kai Zou (Wuhan, China), Chengxiu Huang (Hubei, China) and Timothy Shipp (Seymour, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an internal combustion engine including a valve train comprising one or more intake valves operable in a Miller cycle and one or more exhaust valves. An electric turbo motor is electronically controllable to boost an output from a lower pressure turbocharger to a higher pressure turbocharger. An...