US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 24 for "Systems and methods for predicting a disconnect clutch time to connection" (Michigan, Virginia, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,439, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for predicting a disconnect clutch time to connection" was invented by Corey James Blue (Belleville, Mich.), Samuel Melville Glauber (McLean, Va.), Sassan Farahmand (Canton, Mich.), Fazal Urrahman Syed (Canton, Mich.), Timothy Baxendale (Portales, N.M.) and Zachary John Sinisi (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including the determination of a predicted time associated with a completion of an engine-start, the causation of an engine to transition into torque control in response to a difference between ...