ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,930, issued on March 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Engine reverse rotation and control" was invented by Bijith T G Pillai (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Abhilash Puthuparambil Krishnadas (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for operating an engine. The apparatus includes a crankshaft trigger wheel coupled to a crankshaft and a set of sensors equipped to generate a crankshaft signal associated with an instantaneous speed of the crankshaft trigger wheel. A controller is configured to receive the crankshaft signal corresponding to the instantaneous speed, determine a min...