US Patent Issued to HPDI Technology on Sept. 2 for "Apparatus and method for injecting a pilot fuel into an internal combustion engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,818, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to HPDI Technology LP (Vancouver, Canada).

"Apparatus and method for injecting a pilot fuel into an internal combustion engine" was invented by Sandeep Munshi (Delta, Canada), Michael C. Wickstone (North Vancouver, Canada), Jian Huang (Surrey, Canada) and Ashish Singh (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for injection of a pilot fuel into an internal combustion engine includes a variety of steady state, transient and other techniques to reduce an injection quantity of the pilot fuel and/or a carbon content of the pilot fuel."

The patent was filed on June 29, 2022...