US Patent Issued to BRP-ROTAX on July 8 for "Method for controlling a wastegate valve of a turbocharger" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,201, issued on July 8, was assigned to BRP-ROTAX GMBH & Co. KG (Gunskirchen, Austria).

"Method for controlling a wastegate valve of a turbocharger" was invented by Herbert Parzer (Pichl bei Wels, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a wastegate valve of a turbocharger and the turbocharger of a vehicle are disclosed. The method includes (a) receiving a closed position request; (b) moving an actuator toward a previously stored closed position until a predetermined actuator position is reached, the actuator being operatively connected to the wastegate valve for actuating the wastegate valve; (c) receiving an ac...