US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Oct. 20 for "Device for controlling an internal combustion engine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,943, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Device for controlling an internal combustion engine" was invented by Thomas Eberl (Sauerlach, Germany), Maximilian Engl (Friedberg-Bachern, Germany), Florian Hartl (Munich) and Marcel Kruppa (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for controlling an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle, in particular, an electrified hybrid vehicle with a traction electric machine. The internal combustion engine has multiple cylinders, each of which is equipped with at least one outlet valve which can be switched to two stages. An electronic control unit c...