US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Feb. 17 for "Disconnecting device and power supply network for a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,337, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Disconnecting device and power supply network for a motor vehicle" was invented by Thomas Klawitter (Munich) and Christoph Weissinger (Schliersee, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disconnecting device for a power supply network of a motor vehicle is provided. The power supply network has a first sub-network and a second sub-network. The disconnecting device includes a switching element for switchably coupling the first sub-network to the second sub-network. The disconnecting device also includes a control unit, which is configured to control at lea...