ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,341, issued on April 14, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Whitley, Great Britain).

"Methods and apparatus for mitigating fuel in oil" was invented by Samuel Rios (Coventry, Great Britain) and Ben Kisiel (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for mitigating fuel in oil in an internal combustion engine of a hybrid electric vehicle includes detecting a temperature of engine oil in the engine, determining when the temperature of the engine oil is below an engine oil temperature threshold, and when the temperature of the engine oil is determined to be below the engine oil temperature thresho...