ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,013, issued on March 18, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for determining an effective prevailing uncertainty value for an emission value for a given time point when operating a drivetrain of a motor vehicle" was invented by Jurij Woelfling (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Roberto Verrino (Stuttgart, Germany), Timm Hollmann (Benningen A.N., Germany) and Ralf Knitz (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for determining an effective prevailing uncertainty value (304, 305) for an emission value (301, 302) for a given time point when operating a driv...