US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 17 for "Methods and system for inhibiting engine shutdown" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,919, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and system for inhibiting engine shutdown" was invented by Zachary John Sinisi (Royal Oak, Mich.), Andrew E. Burt (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Kenneth Leisenring (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for inhibiting automatic stopping of an internal combustion engine are described. In one example, inhibiting of automatic engine stopping may be prevented in response to vehicle speed and/or an amount of time since the most recent time inhibiting of automatic engine stopping was permitted. Further, the inhibiting of ...