ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,826, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to dSPACE GmbH (Paderborn, Germany).
"Failure insertion unit" was invented by Bjoern Mueller (Paderborn, Germany) and Tobias Schaeffer (Paderborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A failure insertion unit for connection to an object under test connected to a bus or network interface, wherein the object under test can be subjected by means of the failure insertion unit to fault voltages that are greater than the maximum voltage for which the bus or network interface is designed, with a fuse circuit which protects a bus or network interface connected to the failure insertion unit from voltages...