ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,022, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).
"Methods and apparatus for mitigating fuel in oil" was invented by Samuel Rios (Coventry, Great Britain) and Ben Kisiel (Coventry, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (200) and apparatus 10-2 for carrying out the method of mitigating fuel in oil in an internal combustion engine of a hybrid electric vehicle, the method comprising: detecting a first engine start of a drive cycle when the vehicle speed is greater than zero (210); detecting a temperature of engine oil in the engine at the first engine start of the drive cycle (220)...