US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for controlling cylinder combustion in a dual fuel engine using in-cylinder pressure sensing" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,654, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for controlling cylinder combustion in a dual fuel engine using in-cylinder pressure sensing" was invented by David M. Ginter (Peoria, Ill.), Kenth I. Svensson (Peoria, Ill.) and Jonathan W. Anders (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual fuel, internal combustion engine system is described herein. The system uses in-cylinder pressure detectors to determine the combustion quality in a particular cylinder. The fuel controller commences a remediation process when a detected pressure indicates or is calculated indicating that an out-...