US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Dec. 16 for "Internal combustion engine control apparatus and internal combustion engine control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,931, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Internal combustion engine control apparatus and internal combustion engine control method" was invented by Madoka Iizuka (Tokyo) and Manabu Shoji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal combustion engine control apparatus: sets a target intake air amount and a target ignition timing, based on a target torque; predicts an increase in a load of power generation by a generator that is coupled to a power transmission system and generates electric power by being driven by an output torque of an internal combustion engine; when the load of the power generation is pre...