US Patent Issued to Cummins on May 5 for "Method and system for improving fuel economy of a hybrid powertrain in a vehicle" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,387, issued on May 5, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Method and system for improving fuel economy of a hybrid powertrain in a vehicle" was invented by Archit N. Koti (Columbus, Ind.), Rohinish Gupta (Columbus, Ind.), Xing Jin (Columbus, Ind.), Kenneth M. Follen (Greenwood, Ind.), Arun Prakash Thunga Gopal (Columbus, Ind.) and Manik Narula (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for improving fuel economy and reducing emissions of a vehicle with an electric motor, an engine and an energy storage device are disclosed. The methods and systems involve obtaining lookahead information and current s...