US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Controller for internal combustion engine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,079, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Controller for internal combustion engine" was invented by Shunichi Tsutsuji (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The controller executes acquisition process for acquiring a parameter correlated with a back pressure which is a pressure in the exhaust pipe upstream of a turbine wheel of the turbocharger, determination process for determining whether the back pressure is higher than or equal to a predetermined pressure based on the acquired parameter, and overlap limitation process for limiting a valve overlap amount between an intake valve and an e...