US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 30 for "Feedback fuel control for dual path exhaust system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,098, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Feedback fuel control for dual path exhaust system" was invented by Rani Kiwan (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Chris Paul Glugla (Macomb, 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, the fuel is controlled in response to output of two different outer-loop fuel controllers. The fuel may be controlled according to the individual separate outputs of outer-loop controllers or the com...