US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 5 for "Exhaust gas treatment system and model for controlling hydrocarbon adsorption/desorption in hydrocarbon trap" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,908, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Exhaust gas treatment system and model for controlling hydrocarbon adsorption/desorption in hydrocarbon trap" was invented by Yuntao Gu (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Mingjie Tu (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Calvin Thomas (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust gas treatment system including a hydrocarbon storage model; and a controller operably connected to the hydrocarbon storage model, the controller configured to execute a method for determining a hydrocarbon storage level of a hydrocarbon trap, the method comprising determining a first r...