US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on May 5 for "Exhaust aftertreatment unit" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,348, issued on May 5, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Exhaust aftertreatment unit" was invented by Gert-Ove Wahlstrom (Askim, Sweden) and Martin Petersson (Hisings Karra, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust aftertreatment unit for cleaning exhaust gases, the exhaust aftertreatment unit including a fluid channel for providing a fluid pathway for the exhaust gases, the fluid channel having an outer casing; a catalyst casing housing a selective catalyst reduction (SCR) catalyst and an ammonia slip catalyst (ASC) arranged downstream of the SCR catalyst, the catalyst casing being arranged inside the out...