ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,355, issued on May 5, was assigned to Cummins Emission Solutions Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Exhaust conduit assembly" was invented by Omkar Tendolkar (Greenwood, Ind.), Thomas Kreser (Lohr, Germany), Masoud Ziabakhsh Deilami (Columbus, Ind.), Ralf Rohrmueller (Faulbach, Germany), Atif Mahmood (Huddersfield, Great Britain), Joe V. Hill (Columbus, Ind.), Nicholas K. Sharp (Leeds, Great Britain), John G. Buechler (Indianapolis), Jim L. Alonzo (Verona, Wis.) and Samuel Johnson (East Wenatchee, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust conduit assembly includes: an exhaust conduit body defining an exhaust flow path; an injection aperture...