US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Aug. 25 for "Method for operating an exhaust gas post-treatment device for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, in particular of a motor car" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,376, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating an exhaust gas post-treatment device for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, in particular of a motor car" was invented by Siegfried Mueller (Ingersheim, Germany), Michael Heinrichsmeyer (Steinheim, Germany), Heiko Beil (Stuttgart, Germany) and Christian Dominik Ladwig (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an exhaust gas post-treatment device for an internal combustion engine. The exhaust gas post-treatment device has an oxidation catalyst having a catalytic coating, a heating el...