ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,958, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Vehicle ground connection diagnostic" was invented by Krzysztof Tokarz (Dublin), Wojciech Typrowicz (Dublin) and Janusz Debski (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle ground connection diagnostic apparatus including voltage sensors for sensing the voltage on each of a plurality of ground connector lines, each providing a conduction path from an electronic control unit to ground. A plurality of switches is associated with a respective ground connector line and are controllable for switching between a connected state and a disconnected st...