US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 17 for "Method and control device for operating a diesel motor vehicle for emission reduction, and motor vehicle" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,897, issued on March 17, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and control device for operating a diesel motor vehicle for emission reduction, and motor vehicle" was invented by Josef Blumenschein (Aschach an der Steyr, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a motor vehicle includes a first step of automatically simulating, a second step of determining an operating strategy, and a third step of operating the motor vehicle. In the first step, a quantity of heat emitted by the heating element to the exhaust gas flow and/or to the catalytic converter is automatically simulated by a predefi...