ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,397, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for generating correcting variables for component protection during internal combustion engine operation" was invented by Michaela Plonka (Vaihingen an der Enz, Germany), Dominik Miekautsch (Korb, Germany), Matthias Pfau (Meiningen, Germany), Christian Diederich (Stuttgart, Germany), Michael Stein (Loechgau, Germany) and Detlef Heinrich (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating correcting variables for the operation of an internal combustion engine which comprises exhaust gas valves and which comprises...