US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for coordinating an air blend valve with an intake air heater" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,352, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for coordinating an air blend valve with an intake air heater" was invented by Christopher Whitney (Commerce, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression ignition engine includes an air intake port, an intake air heater disposed upstream of the air intake port and an air blend valve in communication with the intake air heater and the air intake port, and a control unit is configured to perform the noted method. A method includes determining a target temperature for intake air at an air intake port of a compression ig...