US Patent Issued to Donaldson on June 16 for "Air cleaner bypass assembly and method of operating" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,121, issued on June 16, was assigned to Donaldson Co. Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Air cleaner bypass assembly and method of operating" was invented by Dan Little (Minneapolis) and Scott M. Brown (Faribault, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air cleaner assembly includes a precleaner assembly. In one aspect, the precleaner assembly incudes a bypass arrangement that is operated to bypass a portion of air around the precleaner assembly. The bypass arrangement can be operated by a controller based on at least one input signal corresponding to one or more of a vehicle speed, a vehicle engine speed, a vehicle engine load, an operator...