US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on June 23 for "Systems and methods for adaptively managing engine knocking" (Illinois, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,984, issued on June 23, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for adaptively managing engine knocking" was invented by Michael T. Graziano (Washington, Ill.), Brett A. Zook (Lafayette, Ind.) and Kyle Williams (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one instance, disclosed herein is an engine system, comprising: an engine comprising a plurality of engine cylinders; and a controller operative to: control a respective ignition timing for each engine cylinder of the plurality of engine cylinders; detect an increase of a knock intensity of the engine; after detecting the increase of the knoc...