ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,679, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Control system for battery health assessment, charging, and fault mitigation" was invented by Xinyu Du (Oakland Township, Mich.), Lyall Kenneth Winger (Waterloo, China), Infane Lowe (Grand Blanc, Mich.) and Suresh Gopalakrishnan (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low voltage system of a vehicle having a battery, one of a generator and an accessory power module (APM), one or more low voltage load, and a smart energy center. The smart energy center having a first electronic fuse configured to selectively connect the smart energy center ...