US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for capless refueling system" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,043, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for capless refueling system" was invented by Aed Dudar (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for capless refueling system of a vehicle. In one example, a method may include diagnosing a door seal of a capless unit of the capless refueling system. The diagnosing includes determining a condition of the door seal in response to a leak being present in an evaporative emissions system."

The patent was filed on Dec. 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/533,959.

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