US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on June 23 for "Apparatus and method for diagnosing a failure of an inverter" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,492, issued on June 23, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for diagnosing a failure of an inverter" was invented by Gi Heon Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sae Hyun Park (Daegu, South Korea), Chan Mook Choi (Incheon, South Korea), Kyo Beum Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyung Woo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for diagnosing failure of an inverter includes switches coupled to three phases of A, B, and C, respectively. The apparatus a...