US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Dec. 23 for "Detecting engine misfire events for vehicles using filtering" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,986, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Detecting engine misfire events for vehicles using filtering" was invented by Pranjal Sharma (Troy, Mich.), Murali Mohan Kolluri (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Eric M. Staub (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a method that includes calculating an engine speed based at least in part on a crank sensor signal received from a crank sensor of the engine at periodic intervals defined by a crank rotation. The method further includes calculating an engine acceleration based at least in part on the engine spee...