US Patent Issued to AUDI on June 3 for "Method for operating an exhaust-gas cleaning device for a motor vehicle and corresponding exhaust-gas cleaning device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,283, issued on June 3, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for operating an exhaust-gas cleaning device for a motor vehicle and corresponding exhaust-gas cleaning device" was invented by Bodo Odendall (Lenting, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an exhaust gas cleaning device for a motor vehicle, the exhaust gas cleaning device has a vehicle catalytic converter, a first lambda probe arranged upstream of the vehicle catalytic converter, and a second lambda probe arranged downstream of the vehicle catalytic converter. A signal gradient is determined chronologically between a first signal jum...