US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 23 for "Internal combustion engine control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,954, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Internal combustion engine control device" was invented by Satoshi Nakamura (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal combustion engine includes a filter configured to capture PM contained in exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust passage. A CPU of a control device executes a calculation process of calculating a PM deposition amount, namely an amount of PM captured in a filter, based on an operating condition of the internal combustion engine and an alcohol content rate of fuel that is supplied into a cylinder, and when the PM deposition amo...