US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 25 for "System and method for controlling engine starting devices" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,849, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for controlling engine starting devices" was invented by Maruthi Ravichandran (Dearborn, Mich.), Marin Assaliyski (Dearborn, Mich.), Nicholas D. Moore (Dearborn, Mich.), Calvin Trescott (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Naginder Gogna (Northville, Mich.) and Rajit Johri (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for selecting which of a plurality of engine starting devices starts an internal combustion engine of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, engine starting devices may be selected and operated w...