ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,939, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Method of starting a compression ignition engine" was invented by Thomas E. Lloyd (Peterborough, Great Britain), Christopher J Crawford (Peterborough, Great Britain) and Qiancheng Ma (Peterborough, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of starting a compression ignition engine is provided. The method comprises using a glow plug of the compression ignition engine to perform a warm up routine to preheat the compression ignition engine. During the warm up routine, a fuel rack actuator of the fuel rack is actuated which controls the quantity of fuel...