ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,075, issued on June 30, was assigned to Innio Jenbacher GmbH & Co OG (Jenbach, Austria).
"Condition based oil management" was invented by Moritz Hemmann (Innsbruck, Austria) and Gunther Wall (Bad Haring, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for monitoring a lubricant of a combustion engine, wherein measured numerical values are acquired with at least one sensor over a running time of a combustion engine, wherein the measured numerical values are representative of an oil quality of an engine oil of the combustion engine, wherein an oil sampling interval is adapted depending on at least one measured numerical value and/or a va...