ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,284, issued on July 28, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"High-speed fault isolation for power sources of a vehicle" was invented by Peter Rolf Irgens (Novi, Mich.) and S.M. Nayeem Hasan (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a method that includes, responsive to determining that a direction of a current relative to a power source of a vehicle is a forward current flowing out of the power source, determining whether the forward current exceeds a forward current threshold for a forward overcurrent detection time period by comparing the current to the forward current ...