US Patent Issued to Cummins on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for aftertreatment system thermal management using cylinder deactivation and/or intake-air throttling" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,688, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for aftertreatment system thermal management using cylinder deactivation and/or intake-air throttling" was invented by Kunpeng Wang (Wuhan, China), Ke Wang (Beijing), Yuan Zoe (Beijing) and Zhou Cao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for aftertreatment system thermal management using cylinder deactivation and/or intake-air throttling are disclosed. A controller is configured to: receive a first temperature value regarding a temperature change over time regarding the aftertreatment system and a second temperature value ...