US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Feb. 17 for "Performance enhancement of divided exhaust boost (DEB) engine" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,378, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Performance enhancement of divided exhaust boost (DEB) engine" was invented by Praveen Kumar (New Hudson, Mich.), Xin Yu (Novi, Mich.), Anqi Zhang (Canton, Mich.) and Andrew Baur (Whitmore Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A divided exhaust boost (DEB) engine includes: a plurality of cylinders; a turbocharger that includes a first scroll and a second scroll; a first exhaust passage through which a first group of the plurality of the cylinders sends a first exhaust stream generated by the first group to the first scroll; a second exhau...