ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,010, issued on July 15, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for diagnosing a wideband lambda sensor" was invented by Bernhard Ledermann (Weil der Stadt, Germany) and Stefan Kremer (Leonberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit and a method for diagnosing lines between a wideband lambda sensor and the control. By means of specific circuitry and evaluation, it is determined, for each individual line, whether or not there is an interruption or failure of the line in question. A method for more accurately measuring the value of a calibration resistor of the wideband lambda sensor is also desc...