ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,040, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Control device and method for controlling an injector" was invented by Akiyasu Miyamoto (London), Naoki Yoneya (Tokyo) and Takao Miyake (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The herein described subject matter relates in particular to a control device (150) and a method for controlling a fuel injector (101) attached to an internal combustion engine to allow reducing the deviation of the fuel amount between different injectors/different injections in ballistic operation, the control device (150) comprising a control parameter calculation un...