ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,449, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Controller for internal combustion engine" was invented by Ryota Iwasaki (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leakage determination process determines whether there is fuel leakage from a fuel supply system on condition that a start switch of an internal combustion engine has been turned on. A start estimation process estimates whether there is a possibility of a start operation before the start switch is turned on. Processing circuitry does not execute the fuel injection through the fuel injection process if the leakage determination process ...