US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Methods and systems for an exhaust system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,982, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for an exhaust system" was invented by Gianluca Mantovano (Oak Park, Mich.), Robert A. Wade (Plymouth, Mich.), Adam Matthew Selthofer (Brighton, Mich.) and Maxwell Levy (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for an exhaust gas heat recovery (EGHR) device and an air delivery system. In one example, a system includes an exhaust gas heat recovery (EGHR) device with a bypass arranged upstream of a catalyst and an air delivery system configured to flow air upstream of the EGHR device."

The...