ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,453, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany) and Melexis Technologies NV (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

"Evaluation and control unit for a gas sensor" was invented by Claudius Bevot (Stuttgart, Germany), Bernhard Ledermann (Stuttgart, Germany), Stefan Kremer (Stuttgart, Germany) and Volodymyr Sotnikov (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An evaluation and control unit (100) for a broadband lambda probe (200) and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The evaluation and control unit (100) comprises pins (RE, IPE, APE, MES) connectable to electrical wires (201, 202, 203, 204) of elec...