US Patent Issued to Jacobs Vehicle Systems on Nov. 4 for "Shutdown control of internal combustion engine comprising lost motion component" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,594, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Jacobs Vehicle Systems Inc. (Bloomfield, Conn.).

"Shutdown control of internal combustion engine comprising lost motion component" was invented by Robb Janak (Bristol, Conn.), Justin D. Baltrucki (Canton, Conn.), Bruce A. Swanbon (Tolland, Conn.) and Eric J. Hodgkinson (New Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control of engine shutdown of an internal combustion engine comprising a plurality of cylinders and, for each of the plurality of cylinders, a hydraulically controlled lost motion component operatively connected to an engine valve corresponding to the cylinder, is achieved when an...