US Patent Issued to Vitesco Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Method for estimating the atmospheric pressure of an internal combustion engine" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,343, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method for estimating the atmospheric pressure of an internal combustion engine" was invented by Xavier Moine (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the atmospheric pressure for a combustion engine having a cylinder, a throttle valve and an air intake valve admitting air into the cylinder, as well as a pressure sensor between the throttle valve and the intake valve. The method including the following steps: measuring a first pressure at a given angular position of the engine; measuring a second pressure at a pr...