ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,109, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Determination of a failure of a signal line or a failure of a wire for supplying electric power" was invented by Masaki Tanaka (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a failure determination device that includes a storage medium that stores a command readable by a computer and a processor. The processor executes the command to acquire rotation angle data, voltage phase data, angular velocity data, direct-current voltage data, and current data. The processor also executes the command to generate current expectation value data indicating an expecta...