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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,457, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for starting an engine" was invented by Maruthi Ravichandran (Dearborn, Mich.), Rajit Johri (San Francisco) and Steven Anatole Frait (Milan, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a driveline of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, an electrically driven transmission fluid pump may be deactivated in response to an engine pull-up request so that a driveline disconnect clutch may provide more consistent torque transfer capacity during closing of the driveline disconnect clutch."

The paten...