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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C.  20549 FORM 8-K   CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Date of Report:  August 11, 2022      CUMMINS INC. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Indiana 1-4949 35-0257090 (State or other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)   (Commission File Number)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 500 Jackson Street P. O. Box 3005 Columbus , Indiana   47202-3005 (Principal Executive Office) (Zip Code) Registrant's telephone number, including area code: ( 812 ) 377-5000   Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions ( see General Instruction A.2. below): ☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)   ☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)   ☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))   ☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)) Securities registered pursuant to Sections 12(b) of the Act: Title of each class Trading symbol(s) Name of each exchange on which registered Common stock, $2.50 par value CMI New York Stock Exchange Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter) Emerging growth Company ☐ If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐ Item 8.01.      Other Events. On August 11, 2022, Srikanth Padmanabhan, Vice President and President, Engine Business, of Cummins Inc. (the “Company”), entered into a pre-arranged stock trading plan (the “Padmanabhan 10b5-1 Plan”) to exercise options to purchase a limited number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock, par value $2.50 per share (the “Common Stock”), and to sell the shares acquired on exercise. The Padmanabhan 10b5-1 Plan allows for the exercise of options to purchase a maximum of 35,640 shares of Common Stock if the Common Stock reaches a specified market price during the period commencing sixty days after adoption of the Padmanabhan 10b5-1 Plan and continuing until the options to purchase all 35,640 shares have been exercised and the acquired shares sold, or May 1, 2023, whichever occurs first. The shares acquired upon exercise will be sold contemporaneously with the exercise. Based on his current ownership of Common Stock, if the options to purchase all of the 35,640 shares of Common Stock subject to the Padmanabhan 10b5-1 Plan were exercised in full, and all of the shares acquired upon exercise were sold, Mr. Padmanabhan would own approximately 22,557 shares of Common Stock. The Plan was designed to comply with the Company’s insider trading policies and the guidelines specified in Rule 10b5-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which permit an officer or director to enter into a pre-arranged plan for buying or selling Company stock at a time when the officer or director is not in possession of material, nonpublic information about the Company. Mr. Padmanabhan will continue to be subject to the Company’s stock ownership guidelines, and the sales contemplated by the Plan will not reduce his respective ownership of Common Stock below the levels required by the guidelines. All sales of Common Stock under the Plan will be disclosed publicly in accordance with applicable securities laws, rules and regulations through appropriate filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. SIGNATURE   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.   Date: September 2, 2022   CUMMINS INC. /s/ SHARON R. BARNER Sharon R. Barner Vice President - Chief Administrative Officer & Corporate Secretary