US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Methods and systems for V8 engine fuel control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,583, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for V8 engine fuel control" was invented by Rani Kiwan (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Stephen W. Magner (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Michael Uhrich (Wixom, Mich.), Chris Paul Glugla (Macomb, Mich.), Michael Calvin McKinney (Trenton, Mich.) and Stephen Lee Cooper (Hamtramck, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling fuel that is supplied to cylinders of an internal combustion engine are described. In one example, oxygen sensors are placed in an exhaust system of an engine such that each oxygen sensor may d...