US Patent Issued to Cummins on Oct. 27 for "Integration of electric heater into aftertreatment catalyst thermal management" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,669, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Integration of electric heater into aftertreatment catalyst thermal management" was invented by Dheeraj Bharadwaj Gosala (Columbus, Ind.) and Avra Brahma (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for increasing a temperature of an exhaust gas to a target temperature is provided. The method includes receiving, by a controller, a warm up time for the temperature of the exhaust gas to reach the target temperature; receiving, by the controller, a target emissions based at least on a target energy and an emissions value produced over an elapsed time inter...