ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,985, issued on May 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Control device of exhaust sensor" was invented by Kazuhiro Wakao (Susono, Japan), Mie Kato (Gotemba, Japan) and Daisuke Kawai (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device of an exhaust sensor includes a processor. The processor is configured to control supply of power to the heater. The processor is configured to start the supply of power to the heater at a predetermined timing before a starter for cranking the internal combustion engine is turned on and increase power supplied to the heater when the starter...