US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 11 for "System and method for controlling engine starting during a downshift" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,945, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for controlling engine starting during a downshift" was invented by Maruthi Ravichandran (Dearborn, Mich.), Marin Assaliyski (Dearborn, Mich.), Akshay Bichkar (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Naginder Gogna (Northville, Mich.), Rajit Johri (San Francisco) and Corey James Blue (Belleville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing starting of an internal combustion engine during shifting of a transmission of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, torque converter impeller speed or a torque multiplication r...