ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,918, issued on March 25, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Engine control apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Yokoi (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine control apparatus has: a first acquiring section that acquires an estimated torque of an engine according to a current rotation speed of the engine, and an instruction value representing an injection amount of a fuel injected to a cylinder of the engine; a second acquiring section that acquires an actual torque according to an amount of generated power generated by an electric power generator coupled to an output shaft of the engine when the a...