US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on Oct. 6 for "System and method for diagnosing a crankcase ventilation system of an internal combustion engine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,103, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"System and method for diagnosing a crankcase ventilation system of an internal combustion engine" was invented by Mathias Hauptvogel (Weferlingen, Germany) and Stephan Wassmann (Isenbuettel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for diagnosing a crankcase ventilation system of an internal combustion engine. The system includes an internal combustion engine with at least one combustion chamber. The combustion chamber is bounded by a cylinder head, a cylinder in an engine block, and a piston. The piston is connected via a connecting rod to a crankshaft...