ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,687, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Engine control device and engine control method" was invented by Atsushi Matsumoto (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The engine control device includes: an injection control part that receives an instruction to stop an engine and stops injection of fuel from an injector into the engine; and a pumping control part that causes fuel to be pumped from a fuel pump that is driven by rotational motion of a crankshaft occurring from when injection of fuel has been stopped to when the rotation of the crankshaft stops, to a common rail that supplies fue...