US Patent Issued to Vitesco Technologies on April 14 for "Method and device for diagnosing a leak in an evaporation system and in a tank ventilation line of an internal combustion engine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,316, issued on April 14, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method and device for diagnosing a leak in an evaporation system and in a tank ventilation line of an internal combustion engine" was invented by Thomas Pichler (Hohenau, Germany), Tobias Hirthammer (Langquaid, Germany) and Thomas Koenig (Worth an der Donau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for diagnosing a leak in an evaporation system and in a tank ventilation line of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The method includes diagnosing the entire evaporation system using a fresh-air shut-off valve of the evapo...