ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,853, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for diagnosing component failure" was invented by Haifeng Shi (Wuhan, China), Yang Z. Zhou (Wuhan, China) and Chengxiu Huang (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for diagnosing at least one component in an exhaust aftertreatment system are provided. The system includes an exhaust aftertreatment system coupled to an engine system, at least one sensor, and at least one processing circuit structured to: receive initial sensor data; determine an initial parameter value based on the initial sensor data; determine that th...