US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for migitating cold start emissions via rotation of turbocharger turbine" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,924, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for migitating cold start emissions via rotation of turbocharger turbine" was invented by Maqsood Rizwan Ali Khan (Troy, Mich.), Mark Claywell (Birmingham, Mich.) and Azeem Sarwar (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trigger signal is received from a trigger signal source. A first control signal is issued to a wastegate actuator to open a wastegate in response to the trigger signal. A second control signal is issued to a turbo shaft actuator to rotate a turbine of a turbocharger. The rotation of the turbine ca...