ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,445, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Internal combustion engine control device" was invented by Kohei Umehara (Hadano, Japan), Masato Ikemoto (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Hiroshi Kobayashi (Numazu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The internal combustion engine includes a fuel injection valve, a cylinder into which the fuel injected by the fuel injection valve is introduced, an exhaust passage through which the exhaust generated by the combustion of the fuel in the cylinder flows, a catalyst installed in the exhaust passage, an upstream air-fuel ratio sensor disposed upstream of the catalyst ...