ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,330, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BORGWARNER ORSENIGO S.R.L. (Orsenigo, Italy).

"Method and circuit for protecting an on-board charging device" was invented by Alessandro Poli (Orsenigo, Italy), Francesco Bertino (Orsenigo, Italy) and Pasquale Forte (Orsenigo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for protecting an on-board charging device includes the steps of detecting the phase and neutral voltages coming from the grid, detecting a current signal representing a compensation current generated by a compensation circuit, combining the phase voltages together so as to obtain a homopolar voltage signal, squaring the curre...