US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 14 for "System and method for engine starting adaptation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,333, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for engine starting adaptation" was invented by Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Shunsuke Okubo (Belleville, Mich.), David Warm (Clinton Township, Mich.) and Gregory Michael Ostroski (Saline, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for adapting engine starting thresholds for automatic engine starting are described. In one example, one or more automatic engine starting thresholds may be adjusted to decrease a possibility of automatic engine starting. The automatic engine starting thresholds may be adjusted...