US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 14 for "Method and device for determining the fuel volume in a fuel container" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,855, issued on July 14, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and device for determining the fuel volume in a fuel container" was invented by Emmanuel Arras (Munich), Michael Buhl (Grafing, Germany) and Attila Farkas (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining a value of fuel volume in a fuel container for a current point in time is configured to determine an estimated value of the fuel volume for the current point in time based on a previous value of the fuel volume for a previous point in time and based on extraction data relating to fuel extraction from the fuel container, determine a mi...