ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,911, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Controller for internal combustion engine and method for controlling internal combustion engine" was invented by Yuto Ikeda (Okazaki, Japan), Satoshi Ido (Toyota, Japan), Makoto Yamazaki (Gotenba, Japan), Katsuhiro Ito (Nagoya, Japan) and Koji Umezawa (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller and a control method for an internal combustion engine are provided. The internal combustion engine uses hydrogen as fuel. A base value of a fuel injection amount is calculated based on a requested torque. A smaller one of an upper limit value of the...