US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Vehicle motor powered mechanism diagnostic system and method using a hall effect sensor" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,913, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle motor powered mechanism diagnostic system and method using a hall effect sensor" was invented by Esrafil Jedari (Northville, Mich.), Songlin Wu (Novi, Mich.), Bryan Michael Bolger (Canton, Mich.) and Bradley G. Hochrein (Dexter, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic system for diagnosing a motor powered mechanism on board a vehicle includes a current detector for detecting current drawn by a motor of the motor powered mechanism, a hall effect sensor operatively coupled to an output of the motor for generating a hall effect p...