Seven Cummins employees have been chosen as recipients of the company’s most prestigious technical award, the Julius Perr Innovation award. Now in its 23rd year, the award recognizes employees who demonstrated excellence in innovation and technology by developing significant intellectual property for Cummins products.
Richard Ancimer, Krishna Kamasamudram, Ashok Kumar and Aleksey Yezerets developed methodologies related to vehicle emission regulations and were awarded a patent for their work.
For second winning technology, Ed Hodzen, Guoqiang Li, Tim Proctor and Vivek Sujan won for their invention that goes in the award-winning Eaton Cummins SmartAdvantage Powertrain.
The award was created to honor Dr. Julius Perr, who retired from Cummins in 1997 as vice president – Fuel Systems, who was named the inventor or co-inventor of 186 granted patents in his lifetime.
