US Patent Issued to Borg Warner Luxembourg Automotive Systems on June 23 for "Methods and systems for performing active discharge using an active discharge circuit and an auxiliary circuit" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,434, issued on June 23, was assigned to Borg Warner Luxembourg Automotive Systems S.A. (Bascharage, Luxembourg).

"Methods and systems for performing active discharge using an active discharge circuit and an auxiliary circuit" was invented by Walter Kiefer (Perl, Germany) and Tillasthanam V. Sriram (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving a discharge request to perform discharge of a capacitor of an electric vehicle; closing a first switch a first circuit provided in parallel with a second circuit of the electric vehicle; determining a voltage drop of the capacitor, based on closing the first switch;...