US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 25 for "Methods and systems for regenerating a particulate filter" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,757, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for regenerating a particulate filter" was invented by Aed Dudar (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for heating a vehicle via a fuel operated heater are presented. In one example, the fuel operated heater heats a catalyst in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine to reduce engine emissions. In another example, the fuel operated heater heats a particulate filter to purge soot from the particulate filter."

The patent was filed on Nov. 14, 2023, under Application No. 18/508,616.

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