US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 29 for "Controller and control method for internal combustion engine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,939, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Controller and control method for internal combustion engine" was invented by Yuki Suzuki (Kariya, Japan), Tomihisa Tsuchiya (Toyota, Japan) and Jun Miyagawa (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller is used for an internal combustion engine including a cylinder and a direct injection valve that injects gaseous fuel into the cylinder. A CPU of the controller executes acquisition of an in-cylinder pressure that is a pressure in the cylinder during one combustion cycle and a supply fuel pressure that is a pressure of the gaseous fuel supplied...