US Patent Issued to BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS on July 15 for "Method and system for starting an internal combustion engine" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,646, issued on July 15, was assigned to BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS INC. (Valcourt, Canada).

"Method and system for starting an internal combustion engine" was invented by Michel Bernier (Sherbrooke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle has a frame, a front suspension assembly, a pair of skis, an endless drive track, and an internal combustion engine. The engine has: a motor-generator having a rotor and a stator, the motor-generator being operable in motor mode and in generator mode; a recoil starter operable to rotate a crankshaft of the engine via the rotor in a same direction as does the motor-generator in generato...