US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on March 17 for "Method of fuel injector management based on cylinder knock detection and vehicle including the same" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,921, issued on March 17, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Method of fuel injector management based on cylinder knock detection and vehicle including the same" was invented by Azeem Sarwar (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Andrew B. Gillett (Bloomfield Township, Mich.) and Joseph C. Ault (DeWitt, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fuel injector management based on cylinder knock detection includes: receiving an individual cylinder knock count from a first cylinder; determining whether a knock metric is initialized for the first cylinder, whether the knock metric deviates from an established baseli...