ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,257, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for operating a nitrogen oxide sensor" was invented by Herbert Schankula (Esslingen, Germany), Nhat Phan (Weinstadt, Germany), Rainer Hegemann (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Matthias Hoelz (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Yvonne Binder (Hemmingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a nitrogen oxide sensor of an internal combustion engine. When, for a number greater than 1 of operating cycles each including exactly two directly consecutive periods of time, where during a respective first of the periods of time the engine is in fi...