US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 1 for "eCAT inferred heater temperature control to enable high power heating during low flow conditions" (German, Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,189, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"eCAT inferred heater temperature control to enable high power heating during low flow conditions" was invented by Mario Balenovic (Waalre, Netherlands), Frederik De Smet (Zonhoven, Belgium), Maria Armiento (Aachen, Germany) and Ke Fan (Wurselen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for an aftertreatment system. In one example, a method includes adjusting operation of an electric heating element based on an exhaust mass flow. The method further includes estimating the electric heating element based on the exhaust m...