ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,038, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Caterpillar Energy Solutions GmbH (Mannheim, Germany).

"Detection method for detecting a speed sensing anomaly of an internal combustion engine and device for detecting the speed sensing anomaly" was invented by Darshit Shah (Baden-Wuttemberg, Germany), Florian Schmitt (Mannheim, Germany), Jan-Rudolf Spitzer (Lampertheim, Germany) and Philipp Schramke (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a detection method for detecting a short-lived speed sensing anomaly of an internal combustion engine. The detection method comprises the steps of performing a sen...