US Patent Issued to Vitesco Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Method and device for diagnosing a leakage of a crankcase ventilation line of a crankcase ventilation device for an internal combustion engine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,321, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method and device for diagnosing a leakage of a crankcase ventilation line of a crankcase ventilation device for an internal combustion engine" was invented by Gerhard Haft (Maxhutte-Haidhof, Germany), Carsten Bruns (Regensburg, Germany), Thomas Czarnecki (Sinsheim, Germany) and Karl Gruenbeck (Kelheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for leakage diagnosis. The method includes influencing the introduction of gas along a crankcase aeration line into a crankcase of an internal combustion engine and acquiri...