US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Energy Solutions on April 21 for "Coke scraping ring, cylinder liner, cylinder, gas engine and gas engine operation method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,154, issued on April 21, was assigned to Caterpillar Energy Solutions GmbH (Mannheim, Germany).

"Coke scraping ring, cylinder liner, cylinder, gas engine and gas engine operation method" was invented by Olaf Berger (Dudenhofen, Germany), Florian Kahl (Speyer, Germany), Felix Kiefer (Mannheim, Germany) and Inigo Guisasola (Landau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a coke scraping ring for a cylinder liner of a cylinder used in a gas engine, for scraping carbonaceous residuals (R) off a top land of a piston, comprising a ring body, a top end, a bottom end, and a combustion-facing side configured ...