US Patent Issued to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES on July 1 for "Exhaust-gas sensor for an internal combustion engine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,215, issued on July 1, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Exhaust-gas sensor for an internal combustion engine" was invented by Christian Heidtkamp (Munich), David Wieland (Munich) and Johannes Bentner (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the teachings herein include methods for operating an exhaust gas sensor with a pump electrode, a measuring electrode, and a reference electrode. An example includes: discharging oxygen from the measuring cavity by applying a measurement current to the measuring electrode so a measurement voltage between the measuring electrode and the reference el...