US Patent Issued to ISUZU MOTORS, Nikki on May 20 for "Fuel property determination device and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,603, issued on May 20, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan) and Nikki Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Fuel property determination device and vehicle" was invented by Shinichiro Kaneko (Fujisawa, Japan), Misao Tanaka (Yokohama, Japan), Koji Goto (Fujisawa, Japan), Buso Takigawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryota Adachi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This fuel property determination device determines components of liquefied natural gas stored in a tank as a fuel for an engine. The fuel property determination device has: an estimation unit that estimates the methane number of the liquefied natural gas using a first...