US Patent Issued to Cummins on Aug. 25 for "Emissions management for diesel series hybrid powertrains" (Indiana, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,426, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Emissions management for diesel series hybrid powertrains" was invented by Sangeetha Ramdas (Columbus, Ind.), Carlos Alcides Lana (Columbus, Ind.), Kesavan Ramakrishnan (Columbus, Ind.), Lu Qiu (Columbus, Ind.), Muhammad Qaisar Fahim (Memphis, Tenn.) and Dat Duc Le (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing emissions of a vehicle includes a controller to perform: activating a heater responsive to a battery state of charge being at or above a predefined threshold, activating an air mover, causing the moving air to be heated to heat an aft...