US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Oct. 7 for "Dual-fuel engine systems for work vehicle" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,676, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Dual-fuel engine systems for work vehicle" was invented by Danan Dou (Cedar Falls, Iowa) and Craig W. Lohmann (Cedar Falls, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-fuel engine system for a work vehicle includes an engine with a piston-cylinder arrangement defining a combustion chamber and an engine control unit (ECU). The ECU has a processing and memory architecture configured to execute instructions to deliver to the engine only a first fuel when an operating load of the engine is less than 5 a first predetermined threshold, deliver only a second fuel and oper...