US Patent Issued to DAF Trucks N. V. on Sept. 16 for "Compression ignition engine, commercial vehicle, and method for improving starting behaviour" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,273, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DAF Trucks N. V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Compression ignition engine, commercial vehicle, and method for improving starting behaviour" was invented by Sagar Bishnoi (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression ignition engine, commercial vehicle comprising such an engine, and a method for improving starting behaviour of such an engine. The engine is operable in a normal mode or a cold start mode. In the normal mode, a fuel injection system is controlled to inject a main fuel injection in a single pulse. In the cold start mode, the main fuel injection is split into a...