ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,379, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Controller for internal combustion engine" was invented by Yuki Suzuki (Kariya, Japan), Mina Tachibana (Toyota, Japan) and Tomihisa Tsuchiya (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller is configured to control an internal combustion engine. The controller is configured to perform a fuel pressure control of adjusting a fuel pressure downstream of an electromagnetic valve in a flow direction of fuel in a fuel passage to a prescribed pressure lower than a fuel pressure upstream of the electromagnetic valve by repeatedly performing opening and closin...