ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,342, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Compensation controller for controlling the boost pressure for charged internal combustion engines" was invented by Georg Berndl (Seitenstetten, Austria) and Thomas Passenbrunner (Dietach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus associated with compensating boost pressure in a charged internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit has a correction module. The electronic control module is configured to cooperate with at least two actuators that differ in terms of system gain. The correction module is ...