US Patent Issued to Cummins on Oct. 14 for "Exhaust temperature controls for engine operation with cylinder deactivation" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,341, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Exhaust temperature controls for engine operation with cylinder deactivation" was invented by Aaron William Beinborn (Columbus, Ind.), Lyle E. Kocher (Whiteland, Ind.), J. Steven Kolhouse (Columbus, Ind.), Suk-Min Moon (Greenwood, Ind.), Sriram S. Popuri (Greenwood, Ind.), Janardhan Kodavasal (Indianapolis), Ved Merchant (Columbus, Ind.), Kristopher R. Bare (Columbus, Ind.) and Avra Brahma (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of controlling operation of an internal combustion engine are provided. The method includes performing a cylin...