ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,262, issued on March 25, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).
"Method for diagnosing a speed/position sensor" was invented by Pascal Rochard (Toulouse, France) and Stephane Eloy (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for diagnosing a speed/position sensor of an internal combustion engine, of the type including a toothed wheel, which rotates as one with a shaft, and a matter detector, which is arranged so as to be fixed opposite the toothed wheel and controls a base of a transistor. The method includes: detecting a short circuit between an output of the speed/position sensor...