US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on July 22 for "Method for monitoring a regeneration of a particulate filter in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,944, issued on July 22, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for monitoring a regeneration of a particulate filter in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine" was invented by Dimitri Illarionov (Neuburg an der Donau, Germany), Lea Maria Lamminger (Braunschweig, Germany), Lars Stratmann (Brome, Germany) and Christian Steinbrecher (Wismar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a particulate filter in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine. A loading of the particulate filter is determined by a differential pressure measurement between the inlet of the particulate f...