US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on March 17 for "Asymmetric fuel injection window and fuel metering window" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,918, issued on March 17, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Asymmetric fuel injection window and fuel metering window" was invented by Brian V. Tranel (Dunlap, Ill.), Andrew O. Marrack (Peoria Heights, Ill.), Gregory L. Armstrong (Edwards, Ill.) and Dustin K. Fee (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-fuel injection system and method for controlling a fuel injector to perform fuel injection using a fuel injection window and to perform fuel metering using a fuel metering window that is asymmetric to the fuel injection window are provided. The multi-fuel injection system may receive a first fuel and receiv...