US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 8 for "Method for hybrid vehicle emissions control" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,458, issued on April 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method for hybrid vehicle emissions control" was invented by Peter Deakin (Hockley, Great Britain) and Justin Lloyd (Westcliff on Sea, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for emissions control of a hybrid vehicle. An instruction to switch from a combustion engine power mode of the hybrid vehicle to an electric power mode of the hybrid vehicle is received. A temperature of a catalyst associated with a combustion engine of the hybrid vehicle is identified, where exhaust gases from the combustion engine are...