ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,823, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Rechargeable energy storage system isolation detection" was invented by Christopher R. Neuman (Denver), Gautam Kulkarni (Rocheseter, Mich.), Chaitanya Sankavaram (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and James Routh (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assessment for loss of isolation in a rechargeable energy storage systems (RESS). The assessment may include collecting isolation resistance data for a plurality of RESSs operating onboard a fleet of vehicles, applying statistical methods and engineering rules to remove erroneous peaks and dupli...