ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,641, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Method of monitoring reliability of system including electrical components" was invented by Markus Heinrich (Wiehl, Germany) and Guillaume Tournabien (Saint Soupplets, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes at least one electrical component. A method of monitoring reliability of the system includes receiving input data including electrical characteristics of the at least one electrical component. The method includes processing the input data using a stored thermal model representing heat transfer for the at least one electrica...