US Patent Issued to Cummins on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods of using a fuel injector as a pressure sensor to detect top-dead-center for a cylinder" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,925, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Systems and methods of using a fuel injector as a pressure sensor to detect top-dead-center for a cylinder" was invented by Shailesh Nair (Pune, India), Mayur H. Borate (Maharashtra, India), Srinivas Kumar Mulukutla (Pune, India), Panendra Kumar Sahu (Pimpri Chinchwad, India) and David Michael Carey (Bend, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure-based piston top-dead-center ("TDC") position measurement system is disclosed, comprising: a fuel injector configured to inject fuel into a combustion chamber bounded in part by the piston; and a controller configu...