ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,959, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).
"Method for monitoring an oil flow in an oil cooling circuit" was invented by Gerhard Eser (Munich), Sebastian Brettner (Munich), Manuel Dillinger (Munich), Markus Feulner (Munich) and Hong Zhang (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring an oil flow, generated by an oil pump, in an oil cooling circuit of a thermal management system, includes: arranging a first pressure sensor at a first point in the cooling circuit; arranging a second pressure sensor at a second point in the oil cooling circuit; determining pressure difference ...