ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,462, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).
"Error analysis in a sensor" was invented by Mathias Hauptvogel (Weferlingen, Germany) and Tom Padeken (Jaderberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing a sensor with respect to unstable errors, wherein a gradient signal is generated based on a sensor signal. Based on the gradient signal, an evaluation unit is used to assign a slope category to a first slope of the sensor signal and a second slope of the sensor signal, the second slope following the first slope. The evaluation unit ascertains a class of error based on the slope categories assigne...