US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Oct. 6 for "Vented methane gas mitigation system with failure detection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,731, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Vented methane gas mitigation system with failure detection" was invented by Prabhu Jayaraman (Tomball, Texas), Yuesheng He (Sugar Land, Texas), Todd Ryan Kabrich (Tomball, Texas) and Abdullrahman Ali (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A methane gas mitigation system includes an engine comprising a fuel intake configured to receive a gas fuel source and produce mechanical power based on the gas fuel source; a primary gas compressor mechanically driven by the engine and configured to compress a majority portion of field gas into compressed field gas, a...