ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,219, issued on July 22, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Engine controller" was invented by Makoto Yokoyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine controller includes a fuel supplier and one or more processors. The one or more processors determine, based on an operation state of an engine, whether an operation point of the engine is in an engine operation range where an amount of surplus fuel to be returned to a jet pump is smaller than a predetermined amount. Upon entry into the engine operation range, the one or more processors obtain an amount of remaining fuel in a sub-tank, based on a travel state of a vehicle, an...