US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 11 for "System and method for operating an engine" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,098, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for operating an engine" was invented by Thomas Leone (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Aed Dudar (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for an internal combustion engine are described. In one example, the internal combustion engine includes one or more engine cylinders having igniters that include a pre-chamber. One or more of the engine cylinders may be operated in a skip-fire mode if a cylinder misfires or if the internal combustion engine is cold started."

The patent was filed on April 3, 2023, under Applicat...