US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on April 14 for "Internal combustion engine with improved coolant flow distribution" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,287, issued on April 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Internal combustion engine with improved coolant flow distribution" was invented by Suresh Babu Chennagowni (Peoria, Ill.), Mandar A. Joshi (Dunlap, Ill.) and Siyi Zhou (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems and methods are disclosed including an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine can include an engine block and a cylinder head. The engine block can define an inlet passage and a plurality of cylinder jackets in fluid communication in series. The engine block can include one or more passages from each of the p...