US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 20 for "System and method for restarting an engine" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,601, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for restarting an engine" was invented by Maruthi Ravichandran (Dearborn, Mich.), Calvin Trescott (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Nicholas David Moore (Dearborn, Mich.), Rajit Johri (San Francisco), Naginder Gogna (Northville, Mich.) and Ralph Cunningham (Milan, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, an integrated starter/generator (ISG) is operated in a speed control mode after an engine stop request. The ISG is prevented from stopping while engine rotati...