US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Dec. 16 for "Method for dynamically determining a firing pattern for an engine with dynamic cylinder activation and a system implementing the method" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,928, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Method for dynamically determining a firing pattern for an engine with dynamic cylinder activation and a system implementing the method" was invented by Gregory M. Shaver (West Lafayette, Ind.), Dheeraj Gosala (Hamburg, Germany) and Harikrishnan Raghukumar (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for dynamically deactivating engine cylinders of an engine equipped with a cylinder deactivation system, where the system and method control torsional vibration in the engine while deactivating cylinders using a compu...