US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Internal combustion engine and method for operating an internal combustion engine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,930, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Internal combustion engine and method for operating an internal combustion engine" was invented by Christian Karbacher (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Andreas Thoelke (Nuremberg, Germany), Gerulf Pedersen (Furth, Germany) and Ikechukwu Martins Onwuegbulam (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an internal combustion engine having multiple camshaft control units which are connected to one another in a line by a first network topology and via which a crankshaft signal can be transmitted in unprocessed...