US Patent Issued to Cummins on July 28 for "Detection and identification of fuel injector failure modes" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,820, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Detection and identification of fuel injector failure modes" was invented by Nandagopal Methil Sudhakaran (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel system includes including a fuel rail configured to receive fuel from a fuel supply and to supply fuel to a plurality of fuel injectors. A pressure sensor is operatively coupled with and configured to sense pressure of fuel in the fuel rail. An exhaust oxygen sensor operatively coupled with and configured to sense oxygen content of exhaust output by the engine. An electronic control system is configured to...