US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 1 for "Air-handling system for fuel-efficient low load thermal promotion and high load operation for heavy duty engines" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,220, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Air-handling system for fuel-efficient low load thermal promotion and high load operation for heavy duty engines" was invented by Praveen Kumar (New Hudson, Mich.), Yu Zhang (Novi, Mich.) and David Cleary (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an engine with a camshaft having a single cam profile, a gas intake manifold, and an exhaust gas rebreather system for receiving an exhaust gas from the engine. The exhaust gas rebreather system includes a main exhaust gas outlet configured to receive the exhaust gas. An exhaus...