A method for operating a combustion engine (10) with a variable compression ratio includes the following steps: determining a theoretical value for the compression ratio; adjusting the compression ratio to the theoretical value; and correcting the adjusted compression ratio as a function of signals of...http://www.google.de/patents/US20040216704?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20040216704 - Method and device for adjusting variable compression in a combustion engine