US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 14 for "System and methods for in-use NOx robustness emission control" (Michigan, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,295, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and methods for in-use NOx robustness emission control" was invented by Chris Polonowski (Brighton, Mich.), Kyle Pohlkamp (Waunakee, Wis.), Eric Kurtz (Dearborn, Mich.) and Paul J. Tennison (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for optimizing a performance of a vehicle while maintaining vehicle emissions below a threshold. In one example, a method for a controller of a vehicle comprises adjusting an operating parameter of the vehicle in response to a margin between a moving average tailpipe...