US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on June 17 for "Method, computing unit, and computer program for diagnosing the functionality of a burner" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,669, issued on June 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method, computing unit, and computer program for diagnosing the functionality of a burner" was invented by Chao Zhang (Beilstein, Germany), Erwin Schiele (Flein, Germany), Markus Deissler (Heilbronn, Germany) and Winfried Langer (Illingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (200) for diagnosing the functionality of a burner (100), comprising: determining a lambda value (210) of an exhaust gas of the burner (100), comparing (220) the determined lambda value to a time-based changing lambda threshold (225), and detecting a malfunction (280) whe...