ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,960, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method and device for detecting ground short circuit faults" was invented by Xiaofei Qiu (Suzhou, China), Jin Li (Suzhou, China) and Ruediger Karner (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for the detection of short to ground circuits is disclosed. The method includes (i) connecting to a detection current source that is linked to the high-side lead terminal of the two lead terminals of an electronic control circuit, (ii) disconnecting the low-side switch of the ground terminal of the electronic control circuit, (...