US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on Oct. 14 for "Aftertreatment heat up strategies in vehicles with hybrid powertrains" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,297, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Aftertreatment heat up strategies in vehicles with hybrid powertrains" was invented by James E. McCarthy Jr. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Mihai Dorobantu (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a vehicle with a hybrid powertrain comprising an electrical drivetrain and an internal combustion engine includes detecting that a temperature of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) device of an aftertreatment system of the vehicle is below a particular temperature; directing the electrical drivetrain to fulfil a vehicle drive load; ...