ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,279, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Altronic LLC (Girard, Ohio).
"Adaptive spark energy control" was invented by David Lepley (Cortland, Ohio), Matthew Traina (Ravenna, Ohio), Aaron Phifer (Girard, Ohio) and Gary Kleinfelder (Girard, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for operating an ignition system. An ignition transformer has primary and secondary windings. A spark apparatus is connected with the secondary windings of the ignition transformer. One or more characteristics of a spark generated by the spark apparatus is provided. An electronic control unit is adapted to control the ignition transformer, such ...