US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Oct. 6 for "Engine control apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,734, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Engine control apparatus" was invented by Naonori Hagiwara (Tokyo), Kenshin Arimoto (Tokyo), Takayuki Matsumoto (Tokyo), Masashi Touyama (Tokyo) and Yuma Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine control apparatus includes an oil film thickness acquirer and a processor. The oil film thickness acquirer is configured to determine a thickness of an oil film on an inner surface of each of cylinders of an engine. The processor is configured to make a correction of an ignition timing of each of the cylinders in accordance with the determined thickness of the oil film...