US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Feb. 17 for "Port-injected engine having fuel distributor for reduced bias in fuel distribution" (Illinois, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,407, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Port-injected engine having fuel distributor for reduced bias in fuel distribution" was invented by Kenth I. Svensson (Peoria, Ill.), Jonathan W. Anders (Peoria, Ill.), William Barnes (Rapid City, S.D.) and Jessie Marie Collins (Ludlow, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine system includes an engine housing including a plurality of intake valve openings, an intake port extending to the plurality of intake valve openings and an injector bore extending to the intake port. The engine system also includes a fuel system having a port fuel injector, and a fue...