ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,631, issued on July 15, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Fuel supply control device and vehicle" was invented by Shinichiro Kaneko (Fujisawa, Japan), Takayuki Kiuchi (Fujisawa, Japan) and Koji Goto (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are; a fuel supply control device capable of preventing damage on components caused by LNG fuel in a liquid state; and a vehicle. The fuel supply control device is for controlling selective supply, to an engine, of either LNG fuel or CNG fuel stored in separated tanks, and is provided with: a determination unit for determining whether warming up of the engine is ...