US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Methods and systems for an exhaust system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,026, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for an exhaust system" was invented by Robert A. Wade (Plymouth, Mich.), Adam Matthew Selthofer (Brighton, Mich.) and Gianluca Mantovano (Oak Park, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for an exhaust gas heat recovery (EGHR) device. In one example, a system includes an exhaust gas heat recovery (EGHR) device with a bypass passage arranged upstream of a catalyst. A bypass valve is configured to control exhaust flow into the bypass passage based on one or more of an exhaust temperature, an engine...