ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,816, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method and device for determining the pressure prevailing in a tank" was invented by Sonny Tran (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method (20) for determining a tank pressure prevailing in a tank, characterized by the following features: a predefined voltage (10) is applied to a solenoid of a solenoid valve closing the tank (21), the current (11) flowing through the solenoid is measured (22) until a decrease (13) of the current (11), which is characteristic for an opening (12) of the solenoid valve, is registere...